Language at the Speed of Sight

By Mark Seidenberg,

Book cover of Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done About It

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According to a leading cognitive scientist, we've been teaching reading wrong. The latest science reveals how we can do it right.

In 2011, when an international survey reported that students in Shanghai dramatically outperformed American students in reading, math, and science, President Obama declared it a "Sputnik moment": a wake-up…

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1 author picked Language at the Speed of Sight as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Cognitive neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg writes powerfully about how the way we teach reading is not working and why it cannot continue.

His decades of research reaffirms my own four decades of calling for change in how we teach reading. This powerful and impactful book was a major jumpstart for the science of reading movement—a must read for every teacher and parent of a beginning reader.

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