New Video from Children of the Code

Children of the Code is a massive project, consisting of interviews, articles, and videos on the subject of reading and literacy -- and how reading acquisition can break down, and be repaired.

The mission of Children of the Code Project is to help bring about a society wide transformation in our understanding of "The Code and the Challenge of Learning to Read It".

The main website is here, http://www.childrenofthecode.org/

Index of the video segments: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/Tour/index.htm

The new segments:   READINESS: Early Learning Trajectories   -
Below the fold: what's included in these new segments

In this chapter we explore some key factors and issues related to how children's early learning trajectories determine their level of readiness for taking on the challenges involved in learning to read:

• the role of the family in shaping children's readiness for reading
   
• the interplay of nature and nurture in early learning trajectories
   
• the sensitive slope of early childhood brain development
• the inseparability of emotion and cognition in all learning
   
• the fundamental role language plays in human life - from the beginning
   
• how children's language foundations develop and adapt to their environments
• how children's trajectories through all the above result in meaningful differences that profoundly affect the difficulty they have learning to read

I'd urge any parent of a child with language delays and/or learning disabilities to explore this website.

Children of the Code

  Statistically, more American children suffer long-term life-harm from the process of learning to read than from parental abuse, accidents, and all other childhood diseases and disorders combined.  In purely economic terms, reading related difficulties cost our nation more than the war on terrorism, crime, and drugs combined. 

Index page of interviews from Children of the Code

In an interview, Louisa Moats says,

Every day I’m in a school and working with teachers, I continue to be astounded by the gulf of knowledge, the gulf between our knowledge base in the scientific community and the practices that go on in teacher training.....

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