Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?
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The Importance of Balanced Literacy
In the 1990s, scientists began figuring out ways to peer inside our brains. They learned a lot about how our brains learned to read. But reading researchers and education researchers kind of live in separate universes. The big takeaway from all the scientific research on reading is that learning to read is not a natural process. We are born wired to talk.
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