“I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.”
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Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, teacher, and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the UCLA Professor-in-Residence of Education, Director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice, and the Chapman University Presidential Fellow (2018-2022). She is a permanent academician in the Pontifical Academy of Science.
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“I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.”
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“If you word-spot James Joyce, you'll miss the entire experience.”
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“The brain is plastic its whole life span.”
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“When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line to the brain that says 'This is what I do.' The brain bu...”
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“I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn h...”
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“I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.”
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