Sentences with phrase «written symbols»

People identify doing math with writing symbols, often obscure ones.

The struggle to link written symbols with understandings: An update.

Whether in ancient creation myths or modern public relations campaigns, names aren't merely collections of written symbols or uttered sounds — they are subtle - but - powerful tools to shape reality.

The official reading program for the school system I worked in was based on the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), a system in which each sound — as opposed to each letter — has a different written symbol.

The ability to translate written symbols into sounds, commonly called «decoding,» is indeed a skill that can be taught and mastered.

Kinesthetic learning, such as using wood or plastic letters or writing symbols in the air, can help young learners link sounds to symbols and build their awareness of written language.

The scans firstly confirmed which regions of the brain are associated with reading: as expected, the visual word form area, which is known to enable people to link sounds with written symbols, became active during reading, demonstrating that it plays an important role.

After all, the written word is simply a visual representation of spoken language and if a child doesn't fully understand the spoken language, it will be difficult to make the connection between the spoken word and the written symbols on a page.

Previously, experts believe that written symbols have been used for bureaucratic purposes only.

The basic difference between the ability to speak a word and reading or writing it is a child's level of phonological awareness, or his ability to understand the relationship between spoken sounds and their written symbols.

When most movies or TV shows want to show that a character is a mathematician, Devlin realized, they show him or her writing symbols on a piece of paper, on a blackboard, «or, quite likely, on a window or a bathroom mirror.»

Students begin to read written words when they can match letters (written symbols) to the sounds they make.