Organic Phonemes and Early Literacy — (1 page summary) We established via research that 1st grade American children vary greatly in their history of word exposures with some children having experienced as little as 20 million words and some as many as 100 million. We established that 90 percent of 1st grade American children will
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This is a podcast conducted by Jesica Glover as a stand alone episode in “My Child Can’t Read: A Heartland Crisis”. The podcast was as recorded on 5-12-26 and was produced on behalf of the Phillips Fundamental Learning Center. The above video is the raw interview. The interview was edited and released as a
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VWFA research does not directly validate PQs. What it does reveal is a neural architecture of reading that makes the kind of intervention PQs performs especially interesting. The most relevant finding is that the VWFA is not simply a photographic “whole-word recognizer.” With literacy, left ventral occipitotemporal cortex becomes increasingly tuned to the visual regularities
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I haven’t looked into where “dyad” reading is these days. Having the machine read and the reader follow has advantages. That is the whole point of X-Ray reading (though Xray reading is focused on the didactics not dyadics). Reading in a dyad involves more emotional attention because you are reading to someone you are emotionally
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