Silent reading

Reading without speaking aloud

Silent reading means reading without saying the words out loud.[1]

Long ago, people didn't have spaces between words in their writing, so it was unusual to read silently.[2][3]

Some people think silent reading can cause problems with thinking, but many schools still encourage it.[4]


Reading out loud uses more parts of the brain because it involves speaking and reading at the same time.[5][6][7]


References

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  1. Lynch, Matthew (2022-06-06). "Silent Reading: Everything You Need to Know". The Edvocate. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  2. "The Silent Readers". Alberto Manguel, Chapter 2 of A History of Reading (New York; Viking, 1996). Retrieved 2013-06-20.
  3. "How to Read Medieval Handwriting (Paleography)". chaucer.fas.harvard.edu.
  4. Hardach, Sophie. "Why you should read this out loud". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  5. Coltheart, Max; Curtis, Brent; Atkins, Paul; Haller, Micheal (1 January 1993). "Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches". Psychological Review. 100 (4): 589–608. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.100.4.589.
  6. Yamada J, Imai H, Ikebe Y (July 1990). "The use of the orthographic lexicon in reading kana words". The Journal of General Psychology. 117 (3): 311–323. PMID 2213002.
  7. Pritchard SC, Coltheart M, Palethorpe S, Castles A (October 2012). "Nonword reading: comparing dual-route cascaded and connectionist dual-process models with human data". J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 38 (5): 1268–1288. doi:10.1037/a0026703. PMID 22309087.