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Why Parents & Teaches Should Use Direct Systematic Phonics
Neurobiological science reveals the importance of phonologic processing to proficient reading. We now know proficient readers develop and use phonologic processing pathways to convert print to sound. Struggling/dyslexic readers have difficulty turning print to sound and do not use phonologic processing pathways. The key to proficient reading lies in the development of phonologic processing neural pathways. The brain imaging research also has provided neurobiologic proof effective phonological based reading instructional programs that specifically taught letter-sound correspondence not only improved reading skills in struggling readers, but actually changed neural activity from incorrect neural pathways to ‘correct’ phonologic pathways used by good readers. This fascinating brain imaging research has literally given us the ‘map’ for developing proficient reading and shown how we can help students develop proficient reader phonologic processing pathways.
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