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This is more a curiousity about other people's experiences with their kids, but one thing I noticed with my DD when she was younger and reading, more before she started K up into a bit of 2nd grade, is that it didn't matter what the font was or whether it was cursive, upside down, sideways...she could still read it. Actually until a while into 2nd grade she seemed to prefer reading with the book upside down but then seemed to give into the correction at school and brought it home with her.

The vision therapist we took her too thought it was because she wasn't really seeing words as a string of letters making sounds and meaning when put together, but as a chunk and she was able recognize the chunk in a variety of formats...more like art...?

Someone explained it to me that children's minds see letters the way we see a chair. No matter what angle we are looking at it from, it is always a chair. Upside down? It's a chair! From behind? It's a chair! There comes a point where the mind stops seeing letters like that but that it is really common to reverse letters or to be okay with words being upside down, etc.

Yea, definitely true for my whole word reader. Though he didn't realize it until I turned one of his books upside down and asked if he could read it. He was surprised. I thought to try it because I've always been able to read upside down at almost full speed.

Tehn aiagn yuor mnid wlil irntepet mnay mroe tnihgs crorctley tahn msot popeel raleize.

Tehn aiagn yuor mnid wlil irntepet mnay mroe tnihgs crorctley tahn msot popeel raleize.

hey I can read that!!

The vision therapist said he thought DD was "hyperlexic" which doesn't really seem to fit her.

Doesn't the above prove that most proficient readers rely 99% on whole word recognition for reading?

I'd agree!

Me too.

By the way, if you want to play with that the only rule in scrambling words for near-instant recognition is to leave the beginning and ending letters the same as in the original.