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..What does it take to be able to learn to read? We know that it initially takes a clear understanding that the language we hear is composed of smaller sounds. These are called phonemes, the smallest units of sound.Dr. G. Reid Lyon, Past- Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development,  National Institutes of Health, Current senior vice president for research and evaluation with Best Associates.   Source: COTC Interview –  http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/lyon.htm#Whatweknow

 

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 …The amount of reading a person does can predict vocabulary independent of the education that they’ve had. – Dr. Keith Stanovich, Canada’s Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science, Department of  Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto. Source: COTC Interview – http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/stanovich.htm#VocabularyGrowth

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So, you’ve got kids coming into pre-school, kindergarten and first grade who are already behind the curve in vocabulary. Even if we could teach them to read print, what are they going to relate it to?  – Dr. G. Reid Lyon, Past- Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development,  National Institutes of Health, Current senior vice president for research and evaluation with Best Associates.   Source: COTC Interview – http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/lyon.htm#ImpoverishedVocabulary

It turns out that I can’t play phonemic awareness games when the word’s aren’t in my vocabulary…. I can’t do it. I can’t catch the syllables, I can’t catch the phonemes.  – Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams, Chief Scientist of Soliloquy Learning, Inc., Author of Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print. Source: COTC Video Interview (Unpublished) COTC Phone Interview –  http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/adams.htm

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I think sometimes in education vocabulary is looked at in much too mundane a way. Indeed, vocabulary is a person’s tools of thought. – Dr. Keith Stanovich,  Canada’s Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science at the Department of Human Development and Applied  Psychology, University of Toronto.  Source: COTC Interview – http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/stanovich.htm#VerbalIntelligenceandMetacognitiveFunctions

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“…Because after all, written language must stand on the shoulder of oral language.” –  Dr. Paula Tallal, Board of Governor’s Chair of Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University. Source: COTC Interview – http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/tallal.htm#OralandWrittenLanguage

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