October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raising awareness, promoting understanding, and advocating for those with dyslexia. Dyslexia, a common learning difference affecting language ...
“We need to seriously think of how we teach reading and prepare our undergraduate students for the profession of teaching ... adding that all teachers have a deeper understanding of phonemic awareness ...
Instead, she’s a struggling reader, likely with a fluency at a middle-school reading level because she’s also an avoidant reader. And the more she avoids reading, the harder she’ll find reading.
The acquisition of reading is a complex neurobiologic process ... there were not enough data to draw firm conclusions about the best way to teach fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension ...