How the brain learns to read?
Teachers know more about the workings of their car than the workings of their children’s brain! By empowering teachers to understand cognitive science can revolutionize learning.
How literacy acquisition changes the brain?
By scanning brains of children they have been able to map the areas of the brain that changes when you learn to read. Initially visual recognition of letters and the combinations of letters (learn the shape) This then passes to the visual cortex which makes sense of the coding or visual element. Next the representation of speech sounds are altered when learning to read (phonetics). Scanning can track microstructures in the brain where connections are reinforced through reading.
The brain research backs up that Phonics is superior to whole-word training – in adults reading is automatized, we no longer realise how difficult it is, we have an illusion of whole word reading when in reality we don’t actually do that. For children reading requires slow letter by letter decoding.
A lot of the rest went over my head 