[Sigia-l] Faceted classification browsing tool

[Maribeth Sullivan]

Anecdotal: I am a Literacy Volunteer and work with an adult beginning reader
who is delighted to see large text. It is much easier for her to
differentiate letters and decode them, particularly the more difficult
blended sounds. As Avi points out, large type and wider leading are a
convention in children's publishing. For those of us who teach adults, it is
a challenge to find material suitable for adults that is formatted for
beginning readers.

Maribeth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
> Avi Rappoport
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:25 PM
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Faceted classification browsing tool
>
>
> At 6:11 PM -0800 11/21/02, Christina Wodtke wrote:
> >  > http://www.icdlbooks.org/library/help/search_area.htm explains it.
> >
> >
> >writing in a giant font for children is like yelling to people to don't
> >speak English.
>
> I disagree. For young children, it's easier to differentiate the
> letters.  It's a convention, a quick way of indicating this is for
> kids to read, not just for adults.  I think it works for this target
> audience (but I can't test, my 11 year old is too sophisticated and
> my baby doesn't recognize lower-case letters).
>
> Avi
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