Dr. Louisa Moats is a nationally recognized authority on how children learn to read and why some fail to learn. She emphasizes the importance of your child learning to read, and how our educational system needs to change to ensure that happens. I found this instructive and am posting it for your enlightenment.
Beth
Dr. Louisa Moats Addresses the Reading Problem in our Schools Head-On
Dr. Louisa Moats: “What drives me? It is the whole realization of the difference between what is and what could be for kids’ lives and seeing first hand, at every level of society, every age group, how reading difficulty affects people for life. Then on the other end of things, seeing at every level what is not happening that could happen to prepare teachers to address the needs of so many individuals who could benefit from informed instruction and who don’t get it because our whole educational system from start to finish is simply not set up to ensure that people learn to read.” Dr. Moats directed the NICHD Early Reading Interventions Project in Washington D.C.