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Never too Old
to Learn to Read.
“It’s very clear to me that Afi understands the difference between some of what she’s doing guided by me, and that she’s getting a new skill. This is different because she is reading, like her grandchildren.” — Ruth Robarts
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Learn more about state, one of Fast Lane Literacy’s 100 words.
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The shoe
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State starts as a fact — these shoes are wanted.
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The dotted arc
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Changing state — an action moves the fact into the app.
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The badge, 0 to 1
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The screen follows the state, never the other way around.
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The cart holding it
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Maintaining state — the fact is still true on the next page.
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An empty cart on reload
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Stateless — no memory, every visit starts blank.
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That memory is the state.
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The math of state
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Frequency rank
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Around the 200th to 300th most common English word
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Share of all text
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About 0.04% of tokens — one word in every 2,500
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A training set
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3 to 15+ trillion tokens in a modern model
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≈ 4 billion
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appearances of the word state in a 10-trillion-token set — 10,000,000,000,000 × 0.0004
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An order of magnitude, not a count. Tokens aren’t words, so the real figure sits lower.
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Explore Foundations of Reading Teacher Prep Programs.
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Literacy Map //
CheckPoint
Letter Writing Practice
Understanding Our Literacy Crisis
Blog //
The State of Reading
US Ed School Reading Foundations
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