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How do children learn to read? This literacy expert says ‘there are as many ways as there are students’

  • Written by K. Dara Hill, Professor of Reading and Language Arts, University of Michigan-Dearborn
How do children learn to read? This literacy expert says ‘there are as many ways as there are students’Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy.luckyvector/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and 4...

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