Famous Quotes / Jacquelyn Gross
Jacquelyn Gross: "Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill "by the numbers," recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word."
| Armedforces | Close | Components | Drill |
| Hierarchical | Intricacies | Learn | Learning |
| Mastering | Mechanics | Narrow | Numbers |
| Order | Process | Read | Reading |
| Recruits | Reduced | Rifle | Series |
| Skills | Sound | Specific | Where |
| Word |