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There's more than one good way to teach kids how to read

  • Written by Kindel Turner Nash, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Phonics emphasizes the sounds letters and groups of letters make.Africa Studio/Shutterstock.com

We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read.

As scholars, we believe in the study, exchange and debate of ideas. But recently we have become concerned by the direction that...

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