Learning about Learning To Read: A Conversation with Sally Shaywitz.

D'Arcangelo, Marcia

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ERIC Number: EJ594872

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Publication Date: 1999

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Learning about Learning To Read: A Conversation with Sally Shaywitz.

D'Arcangelo, Marcia

Educational Leadership, v57 n2 p26-31 Oct 1999

In this interview, a neuroscientist explains possible applications of brain-imaging techniques to diagnose children's reading difficulties. When good readers do phonologic processing, they activate areas in the back and front of their brains. The brain systems of poorer readers process incoming print information differently. (MLH)

Descriptors: Brain, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Identification, Phonemes, Phonemic Awareness, Phonology, Reading Difficulties, Sex Differences, Student Motivation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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