Why do so many kids struggle to learn to read?
VIDEO | Is My Kid Learning How to Read? Esti Iturralde, who has a PhD in psychology, conducts a little experiment with her daughter on how children best learn to read. Watch the video here. Half of California third graders can’t read at grade level. T
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VIDEO | Is My Kid Learning How to Read?
Esti Iturralde, who has a PhD in psychology, conducts a little experiment with her daughter on how children best learn to read. Watch the video here.
Half of California third graders can’t read at grade level.
There’s exhaustive brain research that suggests that most children must be explicitly taught how to connect sounds with letters, yet many children are not taught how to do that. Why do so many children struggle to read? And why are we still debating over how they should be taught?
Guests:
- Esti Iturralde, Parent
- Karen D’Souza, Reporter, EdSource
- John Fensterwald, Editor-at-large, EdSource
Read more from EdSource:
- A movement rises to change the teaching of reading
- California does little to ensure all kids read by third grade
- California’s Reading Wars History
Education Beat is a weekly podcast hosted by EdSource’s Zaidee Stavely and produced by Coby McDonald.