Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers . Sounds & Symbols

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Breaking the Code
It seems a miracle that any child can learn to read. We ask kids as young as five to understand that what look like scribbles on a page are really symbols and that these stand for sounds, which correspond to letters, which make up words, which combine to form sentences. "It's amazing that they can figure that out," says teacher Gail Fischbach.
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