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Doug Lemov on Reading

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Why Should Schools Encourage Children to Read?

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i think there's a lot of really good research coming out from cognitive scientists that suggests that your knowledge is deeply, deeply important to learning. But at the same time we forget how much power connection understanding you get from culture, from knowledge. So i think the cultural capital is deeply important. And so, you know, i think reading has become, in this country, let it become the act of asking questions about a text. Has become relatively unimportant. But actually, we try and argue in the book that what you read is deeply,. deeply important you.

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