Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?
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The Science of Reading
Mary Ariel sees the effort to change reading instruction in Mississippi as an example of lawmakers telling educators what to do. The belief that learning to read is a natural process that occurs when children are surrounded by books is a problem not just because there's no science to back it up, she says. "The reading is a skill that needs to be explicitly taught"
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