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We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.
Maryanne Wolf
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We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.
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Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.
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Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.
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There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.
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Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.
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As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.
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Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.
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The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
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What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think.
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Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!
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As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.
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