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The Quiet Warrior Show Podcast with Tom Dutta & Sue Hall

The Quiet Warrior Show Podcast with Tom Dutta interviews Sue Blyth Hall, Chair and Founder of The Whole Dyslexic Society.

The Quiet Warrior Show Podcast with Tom Dutta interviews Sue Blyth Hall, Chair and Found of The Whole Dyslexic Society. They talk about her book Fish Don’t Climb Trees, her experience raising her dyslexic son, training as a Davis Facilitator and discovering she is dyslexic, plus the 3 components of dyslexia. Her message that everyone is learning-able, some children just don’t learn the way they are taught.

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"Is there really a ‘science of reading’ that tells us exactly how to teach kids to read?"

The Washington Post, Valerie Strauss, January 26, 2021

"One of the longest-running education debates — commonly referred to as a war — has been over how to teach reading. It started in the 1800s, when Horace Mann, often called “the father of public education” in the United States, argued against teaching the explicit sounds of each letter. He worried that students would concentrate on sounding out words rather than learning how to read for comprehension, so he argued that students should learn to read whole words instead.

Thus began the fight over teaching phonics or “whole language” — and more recently what is known as “balanced literacy.” We’ve also been hearing declarations that a “science of reading” proves that employing phonics in a particular war is the best and right path to teach young children how to read.

The following post looks at this broad issue and whether there really is a “science of reading” that has finally settled how reading should be taught."

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