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How Children Learn to Read by Molly de Lemos and Robert Sweet

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2015 12:20 pm
by Anne Glennie
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This statement summarizes the basic facts about how children learn to read, and how best to teach them, as supported by current theory and scientific evidence on the processes underlying the acquisition of reading skills.
It was prepared by Robert Sweet, President of the US National Right to Read Foundation, based on the article by Molly de Lemos on How children learn to read: A position statement, published in the LDA Bulletin, Volume 45, No. 2, September 2013. This summary is also available in the Autumn 2015 edition of the LDA Bulletin, Volume 47 (1), p.18.