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The Martyrdom of Liz Cheney

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The Science of Reading Is a Catch Phrase That's Being Used by Activists for Teaching Children to Read

The science of reading is a catch phrase that's being used by educators and parents who have become activists for teaching reading in a new way. It has been known since about the late 19 sixties that phonemic awareness and phonic play a crucial role in how children learn to read. In order to read, we have to understand there's a connection between words that surround us, that we hear and what we see. So all these are actually rules that can be taught to children explicitly.

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