Why Is Reading So Hard?
Why can my child speak so well, but struggle with learning to read? Why is reading so hard?” Those are questions asked by many parents of kids with reading issues. Hear from literacy...
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Learning to speak and understand language is natural for most human beings. We are biologically wired to do that and it is part of our human heritage. We're born to do that, and unless we have some language problem that we're born with, we acquire a language just by being exposed. By being with caregivers, parents, siblings, peers that surround us with language. And it's just magical to see it unfold. Learning to read, on the other hand, is a cultural invention. So our brains just don't come with that wiring. And it's relatively recent, five thousand years, that we've had a system that actually represents spoken language. We didn't have, you know, an alphabet. We wouldn't be able to convey our thoughts, and perpetuate, you...
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Learning to speak and understand language is natural for most human beings. We are biologically wired to do that and it is part of our human heritage. We're born to do that, and unless we have some language problem that we're born with, we acquire a language just by being exposed. By being with caregivers, parents, siblings, peers that surround us with language. And it's just magical to see it unfold. Learning to read, on the other hand, is a cultural invention. So our brains just don't come with that wiring. And it's relatively recent, five thousand years, that we've had a system that actually represents spoken language. We didn't have, you know, an alphabet. We wouldn't be able to convey our thoughts, and perpetuate, you...
