Welcome to Read Like a Reader!
Becoming a reader is lifelong, inexhaustible work. How does one learn to read? And then to read again, and variously? What are the postures, and practices? How can we read a text as it asks to be read?
This week we hear from Avivah Polmer, a Colorado College graduate in Classics, and a Linguistic and Dyslexia specialist with over twenty-five years of experience in the field.
Over sounds of yard work and occasional traffic, Avivah and I discussed how our mouths work to make certain sounds; phonemes and phonics; stigma and anxiety; literacy difficulties and incarceration; orthography; dyslexic fonts; student support; sequencing sounds in a word; the case for repetition in learning; her family’s story of struggle and great success with dyslexia; and what all readers can learn from readers with dyslexia.
What a gift to learn from her expertise!
Avivah recommends the Lindamood-Bell Program.
Thanks to Jacob Keough-Mishler for his original music, sound design, and editing.
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