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What actually helps kids learn to read, in everyday language. We name the researchers so you can see who said what — and we say when the evidence is mixed.
A video teaches more when you sit together, pause, and talk. Pressing play and walking away is the part that does not work.
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Planned phonics — teaching the links between letters and sounds in a clear order — helps most kids learn to read. It is not the whole job, and we will not pretend it is.
A summer of teaching reading at camp taught me the problem is almost never the child. We hand them a wall of rules before we hand them a reason to care.
Teach one Latin root and you have not taught one word. You have handed over a key that opens a whole bunch of words.