BS 145 The Reading Brain with Maryanne Wolf
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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We Aren't Born to Read
The idea that we aren't born to read is so simple, it's hard for people to understand the serious implications. Unlike language or a language, we don't have a genetic program. It's cultural. The human brain learns to form and it can form different circuits. If you assume that reading is natural, like some companies even have something called read naturally, then you don't need to teach explicitly the elements of the reading circuit. That has implications for the entire life of a child.
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