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“The world of fantasy presents a conceptually perfect holding environment who are just leaving the more concrete stages of cognitive processing.... as fluent comprehending readers learn to enter into the lives of imagined heroes and heroines, along the Mississippi or through a wardrobe portal.”

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Book:Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“Comprehension processes [for young readers] grow.... [when] they leave the surface layers of text to explore the wondrous terrain that lies beneath it. The reading expert Richard Vacca describes this shift as a development from "fluent decoders" to "strategic readers"--"readers who know how to activate prior knowledge before, during and after reading, to decide what's important in a text"....”

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Book:Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

“We now know that groups of neurons create new connections and pathways among themselves every time we acquire a new skill. Computer scientists use the term "open architecture" to describe a system that is versatile enough to change--or rearrange--to accommodate the varying demands on it.”

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Book:Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Source: Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain