Reading Synthesis Essay

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Reading can be seen as a gateway to education that in turn paves the path to acquiring successful career opportunities. As a developing country, many members of our society struggle with the disability to read fluently. This may be attributed to the inability to decode, comprehend text and read at an appropriate rate that can be generalized to improper teaching and learning techniques. A series of tests on dual coding hypothesis by Sadoski, Goetz and Paivio (2001) have suggested that it could be applied to reading comprehension, written composition and a combination of both reading and writing. As Sadoski (2005) states, “All knowledge, meaning, and memory is explained by representation and processing within and between the two codes in this

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