Kate Blackwell, a classroom teacher at Blackheath Public School in the Blue Mountains shares what she has learnt about the neuroscience of reading and what the implications of that knowledge has meant to her classroom practice when teaching children to read.

Kate references these sources:

Reader come home: The reading brain in a digital world by Maryanne Wolf https://www.maryannewolf.com/reader-come-home-1

Language at the speed of sight by Mark Seidenberg

https://seidenbergreading.net/

Reading in the brain, the science of how we read by Stanilas Daheane https://www.penguin.com.au/books/reading-in-the-brain-9780143118053?utm_expid=.JC69wDioR_Kc4RimyKASfg.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Educating the brain - Stanislas Daheane

https://youtu.be/0esnsHI4opA

Literacy & Numeracy website (DoE intranet) https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy