Learning to read is one of the most important skills our kids will ever develop, but when they struggle with it, it can be hard as a Dad to know what’s actually going on or how best to help.
Our tool for this episode is ‘The Brain-based Model of Reading’, a simple way to understand what’s happening inside your child’s brain as they learn to read and how you can better support that process.
To help us understand it, I’m joined by Dr Duncan Milne, an educational neuroscientist, CEO of Junior Learning, and author of “Teaching the Brain to Read”. Duncan is an expert in literacy and develops educational resources that support children learning to read which are used in schools across the world including the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
In this episode, Duncan shares:
KEY QUOTES
“Giving the gift of reading is like giving children a time machine.”
“We need to really make that effort to model excellent language and read to our children.”
“If you can make it fun, you can turn on learning.”
MORE ABOUT DUNCAN
BRAIN-BASED MODEL OF READING RESOURCES
Buy Dr Milne’s kids book “How My Brain Learns to Read” to help you and your children understand what their brain is doing when learning to reading
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SUPPORTING RESEARCH
Download a compilation of the papers and books used to research this topic.
Podcast produced by The Podcast Butler