Hard Words: Why Aren't Our Kids Being Taught to Read?
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The Importance of Teaching the Science of Reading
Kids who suffer most when schools don't give their students insight into the code are kids with dyslexia. They have an especially hard time understanding the relationship between sounds and letters. Kelly Butler: The main problem at this point is ignorance. Mark Seidenberg: Facts aren't the thing that change people's beliefs. Instead, confronted with data that contradict deeply held beliefs, it can have the paradoxical effects of entrenching them further.
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