Trailer | Building the Reading Brain
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Explore the science of reading and ways to help ready your child for this complex task.
Explore the science of reading and ways to help ready your child for this complex task. Reading is essential for daily life, but humans are not born with the ability. Experts in education and neuroscience explain the science of how neuropathways are built, the brain’s reading centers, and their impact on early childhood literacy, skill development, and school readiness.
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WKAR Specials is a local public television program presented by WKAR
Funding for Building the Reading Brain was provided in part by United Way of South Central Michigan. Engaging with community partners to address the social issues related to financial instability. More at unitedforscmi.org.
Trailer | Building the Reading Brain
Preview: Special | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Explore the science of reading and ways to help ready your child for this complex task. Reading is essential for daily life, but humans are not born with the ability. Experts in education and neuroscience explain the science of how neuropathways are built, the brain’s reading centers, and their impact on early childhood literacy, skill development, and school readiness.
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(pleasant piano music) - Reading is a human invention.
It is not a natural biological process.
- Okay, you ready to read?
- [Child] Uh-huh.
- [Speaker] We have to teach our brains how to read and create new neural pathways.
- We are not born with the ability to read.
The brain has to adapt.
Reading takes time and effort to develop.
- Reading is one of the most complex things that we do as human beings, but once you're taught in a way that makes sense to you, almost everyone can learn reading.
- Name the letter.
- [Students] I.
- Sound it makes.
- [Students] /i/.
- There are certain practices that are supportive of reading and writing based in research.
It's very clear what should be happening and we can do it.
- There is a Frederick Douglass quote.
"Once you learn to read, you'll be forever free," and that is just the truth.
(pleasant piano music continues)
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WKAR Specials is a local public television program presented by WKAR
Funding for Building the Reading Brain was provided in part by United Way of South Central Michigan. Engaging with community partners to address the social issues related to financial instability. More at unitedforscmi.org.