Lesson 5: Reading and Language

After watching the videos on Language and Reading, how does this information impact you as a teacher?

Before this video, I did not realize how compartmentalized the areas are that process reading in the brain. I was surprised to learn that phonemic awareness affected a different part of the brain from decoding. Seeing the picture of a brain of an at risk child really impacted me. I work at a school with many at risk children who come in to my class like that. I have to provide many interventions to help them with phonemic awareness and decoding. I wish that I could get brain scans of my students before my class and after it.