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APM journalist, Emily Hanford, says “Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don’t know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set up to fail.”
More from Emily Hanford: “For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don’t know there’s anything wrong with it.”
Learning to Read: A Primer (Parts 1 and 2)
These primers from Amplify provide a clear, concise overview of the science of reading.
Part 1 provides an overview of how humans came to read, with a lot of fascinating information about what’s going on in our brains as we read.
Part 2 takes us into some different ways of thinking about the important contributors to reading comprehension.
