Category: Science of Reading
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The New Writing–with the Science of Reading
Like Playing Piano What sports or instruments are your kids learning to play? Surely, you and your child are familiar with the need for practice in any skill you’d like to master. Of course. Yet in the academic equivalent, when students face “writing a paper” they often expend more energy…
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A Positive View of the Adolescent Heart
Famed psychologist and vulnerability researcher Bene Brown once said that “we only think we are rational beings, but in fact, emotion is in the driver’s seat…” If you apply that observation to adolescence–let’s say a classroom of adolescents—it’s fair to say that middle school teachers are facing a squirming hot…
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Introducing the “New” Science of Reading
The new term “science of reading” refers to a body of knowledge that has taken almost five decades to accumulate–from psychology and brain science.
