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How do we learn to read - and why is it hard?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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The Importance of Learning to Read

Emily Hanford is a reporter at American Public Media. She made a podcast called Sold a Story about how kids were having trouble learning to read. Emily found out that these kids were being taught in a way that just wasn't working. We're going to call this approach the whole word way of reading. Instead of sounding words out letter by letter, you're trying to figure out the whole word.

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