[Reading-hall-of-fame] Has brain science changed how you teach about readi

[Jay Samuels]

My comment is sort of a piggy back on David's statement below. There is a
book out with a clever title "Teaching the Brain to Read"  If you think
about it, when teachers engage in literacy instruction, what else are they
doing other than teaching the brain to read.  Incidentally, several programs
have come my way in which the company selling the program claims that  it
has some unique approach that accelerates the growth of neurons. Upon
inspection of the program, I find the company is selling good reading
instruction but there is nothing unique about it such that it has an unusual
property that will accelerate brain development. Jay samuels 

 

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Brain growth.

Like most brain research, the M. Just study on remediation in reading tells
us more about the brain than about reading.  I take it that we already knew
that 6 months of intensive remediation would improve reading competence
significantly, and I take it that we knew that learning resulted in brain
growth/change-what else could it be?.  It is a impressive that the site of
the growth could be detected, but that tells us little about reading that we
did not already know.  

David 

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