Reading A&P Terms Out Loud Helps Reading Comprehension | TAPP Episode 20

The A&P Professor

Why we should encourage A&P students to say the difficult terms out loud before reading. Will we ever pin down the number of genes in the human genome? Get a free book of brain facts from the Society for Neuroscience. Please help Kevin extend the reach of TAPP Radio! Summer is a good time to binge listen all the episodes of this podcast, perhaps enjoying the beverage of your choice (mine is iced tea...unsweet).

How many genes in the human genome? (3.5 min) Free book of brain facts (2.5 min) Expand the reach of this podcast (3.5 min)Why students should read A&P terms out loud (10 min) Binge much? (1 min)

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(0:43) New research increases the number of coding genes in the human genome up from around 19,000 or so genes to just over 21,000 genes.

• New human gene tally reignites debate (recent news item in Nature)
• Thousands of large-scale RNA sequencing experiments yield a comprehensive new human gene list and reveal extensive transcriptional noise (2017 unreviewed research preprint)
• Size of the human genome reduced to 19,000 genes (2014 new item from Science Daily)
• Multiple evidence strands suggest that there may be as few as 19 000 human protein-coding genes (2014 research article in Human Molecular Genetics)

(4:12) Brain Facts book: great summary of basic concepts of neuroscience (with great pictures).

• Brain Facts (from Society of Neuroscience; has links to low- and high-resolution PDFs, audio files of previous editions, and requests for free print versions for educators)

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(10:23) It sounds wacky, for sure, but reading complex terms out loud before reading the textbook can helps speed up reading and improve comprehension.

• Reading Information Aloud to Yourself Improves Memory (article from Neuroscience News)
• This time it’s personal: the memory benefit of hearing oneself (journal article in Memory)
• Reading Terms in A&P (post in The A&P Professor blog; has additional links to resources)
• Reading Scientific Terms (post in The A&P Student blog; you can provide this link to students)
• Word Lists Help Students Build Their Mental Lexicon (post in Patton's Anatomy & Physiology blog
• Say It Out Loud 18 Times (post in o-log-y blog)

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