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Reading Instruction, Word Confirmation, and Confirmation Bias
Purpose statement: The reader will become more effective in evaluating online sources related to reading instruction.
Behavioral objective: Readers will be able to identify instances in which confirmation bias results in an over-use of quotations and a misrepresentation of authors’ original ideas.
Important Terms
• Word recognition – encountering a word in print and instantly knowing what it is.
• Word identification – encountering a word in print that is not recognized and using a strategy to figure out what it is.
• Decoding – identifying a word using letters and letter patterns.
• Strategy…
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