As a child, I attended religious school at my family's synagogue, six hours a week. In 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, I was actually in a pilot class that specifically focused on learning prayers in Hebrew. We learned to "read" the prayers and chant them, as well. There was only one thing that we did not learn - what the prayers meant. My classmates and I did not learn to read the prayers. We learned to decode them. On our Bar and Bat Mitzvah days, my classmates and I nervously stood on the pulpit chanting the prayers. We achieved our desire, and our parents’ desire; we had this special ceremony. It never dawned on me that I did not understand what I was saying. Of course, I did not recognize that I was one amongst tens of thousands of children who could decode but not comprehend.
RC = D × LC × PI
RC = D × LC × PI
RC = D × LC × PI
As a child, I attended religious school at my family's synagogue, six hours a week. In 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, I was actually in a pilot class that specifically focused on learning prayers in Hebrew. We learned to "read" the prayers and chant them, as well. There was only one thing that we did not learn - what the prayers meant. My classmates and I did not learn to read the prayers. We learned to decode them. On our Bar and Bat Mitzvah days, my classmates and I nervously stood on the pulpit chanting the prayers. We achieved our desire, and our parents’ desire; we had this special ceremony. It never dawned on me that I did not understand what I was saying. Of course, I did not recognize that I was one amongst tens of thousands of children who could decode but not comprehend.