Brain Fact Friday on ”Accelerating Literacy: Understanding How the Brain Learns to Read”

<p>DID YOU KNOW that “How quickly and successfully the brain learns to read”<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a> is greatly influenced by the student’s ability to speak.  “It is important to understand what cognitive neuroscience has revealed about how the brain processes the spoken word” (Souza, page 11) when looking to unlock the secret for accelerating literacy with our students, or children.</p> <p>On this episode you will learn:</p> <p>✔︎ How the brain learns to read.</p> <p>✔︎ Why it's so important that our children/students learn to read by 3rd grade.</p> <p>✔︎ Strategies that you can use today to accelerate reading with your emergent bilingual students, or struggling readers.</p> <p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast for BRAIN FACT FRIDAY and EPISODE #182 on “Accelerating Literacy: Understanding How the Brain Learns to Read”</p> <p>For those new, or returning guests, welcome! I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies that we can use to improve our productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments.</p> <p>For this week’s Brain Fact Friday, I’m deep in the middle of preparing for a presentation with Assistant Superintendent Greg Wolcott<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>, and his Learning Abilities Summit. If you are an educator, looking for new ideas and strategies for your students, please do visit his Summit page to learn more.<a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a>  For a reasonable cost, he offers training for educators that’s available virtually, from people around the country who share their expertise to accelerate learning for your students. I highly recommend following these Summits and offering them to your staff for professional development.</p> <p>As an educational consultant, I first began making the connection with how the brain impacts learning back in 2014 and began creating presen