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POV: We Need to Be Better at Teaching Kids to Read

Being able to read independently is powerful. Despite its power, in Massachusetts schools today many children are not taught to read independently, significantly limiting their potential. These children are overrepresented by children from low-income communities, communities of color, and children with disabilities. Fortunately, we have the knowledge to change these outcomes. In the United States, few areas of education have been studied more than how children learn to read. For many decades researchers from several disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, speech pathology, education, neuroscience) have studied how the human brain perceives and processes print and connects it into oral language and concepts in order to understand an author’s message.

bu.edu     Jul 03, 2023