![]() ![]() However, one might wonder how much of this complex text Sally is actually comprehending at her young age. Who is reading? Sally or her grandfather? To many, Sally is the one reading in this scenario because she is the one decoding printed text into spoken words (and even with appropriate prosody!). ![]() In the popular television series Mad Men, 8-year-old Sally Draper reads to her grandfather from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “The warmth of the climate disposed the natives to the most intemperate enjoyment of tranquility and opulence, and the lively licen- licent-” When Sally cannot decode the word “licentiousness”, her grandfather provides it, and she continues- “of the Greeks was blended with the hereditary softness of the Syrians …” ( Waller, Weiner, & Getzinger 2009). ![]()
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