Alison Clarke: The way we teach most children to read sets them up to fail

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Alison Clarke: The way we teach most children to read sets them up to fail

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Alison Clarke describes why and how the English spelling system is challenging to learn - with links to international inquiries in how best to teach reading - in The Conversation:

https://theconversation.com/the-way-we- ... fail-36946
The way we teach most children to read sets them up to fail

A new batch of Australian five-year-olds has just started school, eager to learn to read and write. Unfortunately for them, English has one of the most difficult spelling systems of any language, thanks to the way it developed.
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