Maryanne Wolf: Short paper - How the Reading Brain Resolves the Reading Wars

Post by **Debbie_Hepplewhite** » Thu Sep 22, 2016 8:24 am

I highly recommend that you read this very short paper by Maryanne Wolf about the elements required to develop the 'reading brain' and why the 'reading wars' should now be redundant:

https://www.ldaustralia.org/client/docu ... s_2013.pdf

How the Reading Brain Resolves the Reading Wars

Maryanne Wolf

Literate Nation Board of Directors and Science Core Group
John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service
Director, Centre for Reading and Language Research
Eliot - Pearson Department of Child Development
Tufts University
(author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Having read the paper, do read it again. and read the transcript of a short radio interview conducted by Norman Swan (below). Thank you to Kristin Anthian for flagging up these resources.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro ... transcript

Audio of the interview - this is a 'must' listen:

https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pg ... ?play=true

Congratulations to Maryanne for receiving the Learning Difficulties Australia (LDA) 2016 AJLD Eminent Researcher Award.