How the Brain Learns to Read - Prof. Stanislas Dehaene

[@fit2learn657]

What is missing is how bi-lateral integration of motor skills, quality of sound and vision processing impact on ability to read. The inputs to the brain need to be good for the person to be able to read fluently. Those skills need to be in place ideally before starting to read so that reading early does NOT physically damage the child by rushing to reading too early.

[@SkepticalTeacher]

Yes, that is why he is both right and wrong about cursive handwriting: great if they start at 6 or 7, not so great if they start at 4 or 5!

[@DingDongNotes666]

Yes, you named a very important point. This is why I'm fiercely against the blind belief that "earlier is better", against the ridiculous push to make kids sit down and write earlier and earlier. The talk of academic achievements for 3 yo sickens me.

[@cYphh]

Depends on the child.

[@LucyBunbury-u2b]

Absolutely agree with this. Is there any material on this on KZbin or elsewhere? Thx

[@aizhanussenaliyeva7218]

According to my theory, using both hands in the writing process increases the quality of verbal logical memory among infants and toddlers.

[@janescognamillo6157]

Having taught reading for over 30 years---this video validated what I experienced. I presently work in a school system where Guided Reading is used and am heartsick to see how many children are not being serviced. How can we get to the Powers that be to show them the harm they are doing? Jane S.

[@WISEQatar]

Jane Scognamillo Thank you for sharing...maybe you will find the video about this initiative inspiring as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fobcXnSHedZpfKM

[@MrsCalabresesTeachingChannel]

Jane I feel your pain! The Ed schools keep churning out ill informed and misinformed reading paradigms.

[@LesleyWalker-f8i]

use your guided reading time to teach phonics to the groups that need it

[@toddspires603]

I'm a kindergarten teacher in Georgia. Our state has just made it a law that all public schools must teach using the Science of Reading. Check for your state to see if they are plans to adopt this philosophy. What state do you teach in?

[@aizhanussenaliyeva7218]

Also the geometry of the writing process is a critical factor to consider. There is a cognitive difference in memory formation between those who use horizontal writing process and those who use vertical writing process.

[@MrsCalabresesTeachingChannel]

Children require more and more time for more and more letters. We can be very clear at this point - the global shape is NOT used. Amen! Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@WISEQatar]

Mrs. Calabrese's Teaching Channel Thank you for sharing- have you checked out the video on a WISE Award winning project "We Love Reading"? Find out more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fobcXnSHedZpfKM

[@mohamedkamara8015]

This is useful and exceptionally important. I think learning letter sounds together with their names and blending the sounds go a long way in helping children develop the skill of reading for comprehension. This is the foundation of reading. Great presentation!

[@stephanieking5084]

Fascinating! This video was required for class, but I found myself writing so many notes and going back to the information out of interest. Thank you for posting, and I will be looking into more teachings from Professor Stanislas Dehaene.

[@deb626]

This presentation was very interesting regarding the anatomical changes in the brain, and that as one starts to grow in reading, you tend to process letter strings quickly. What stood out to me was that in time, the visual goes directly to the meaning. After all, we read for meaning. When the focus is only on phonics, it can become an abstract process for certain students. In other words, phonics instruction may be targeting a student’s weakness and not their strengths: meaning, morphology and etymology. In conjunction with those essential pieces, it is essential to include the orthographic phonology piece.

[@VijayRajanna]

This is an excellent research, for the fact that the conclusions are not just based on superficial observations of participants' reactions, but they monitor the neural activity inside the brain.

[@WISEQatar]

Vijay Rajanna Thanks for your comment. We are glad you like this presentation.

[@terriaverill1610]

So amazing! Thank you for your research. We need you to come to America and talk to our government about this.

[@rabindra6688]

An excellent presentation by the learned Prof. His research further fortifies the importance of mastering letter-sounds correspondence during the early years of a child. I hope future research will also look into bilingual acquisition and especially into L2 learning.

[@nickhockings443]

Just don't push a linguistically false model onto children. 'Dyslexic' errors are the consequence of trying to obey false rules. English does not have a one to one correspondence between letters and sounds. English groups letters into graphemes which have a few-to-few correspondence with phonemes. The graphemes of English have between 1 to 4 letters, e.g. 'sh', 'sch', 'ough' etc...

[@jmcampbell05]

YOUR ENGLISH IS INCREDIBLE!! ON TOP OF ALL YOUR OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS!!!

[@ednalissetteordonezcruz6657]

Interesante el video. Me gustaría que estuviera en español. Realmente los avances científicos nos brindan luces para seguir mejorando los procesos de enseñanza de la lectoescritura. Aclaré muchas dudas y rompí neuromitos.

[@SkepticalTeacher]

Sus libros también están disponibles en español...

[@AndreaSamadi]

This is a very memorable presentation. I love the video showing how the brain learns to read. When reading with my daughter now, I can imagine the processes that are happening in her brain as she is learning to read, and learning automaticity.

[@gagejerome8068]

sorry to be offtopic but does any of you know of a way to log back into an Instagram account? I was stupid lost the account password. I appreciate any assistance you can offer me.

[@QwertyCanada]

​@@gagejerome8068 yes sir

[@aizhanussenaliyeva7218]

I am studying the link between motor skills development and verbal logical memory formation.

[@noski1240]

Studying for a test in cognitive neuroscience and this did a great job explaining things. Thanks for uploading!

[@summerluv.n]

what we understand about reading. starts at 3:00

[@pleasantmemorieseducation-ican]

THIS is just such valuable information for ALL educators around the globe. Thanks so much.👌📚

[@richardinhingham]

Love this! BOTH reading is based on excellent instruction AND reinforcement is critical. ALSO age is NOT a barrier to learning to read--but starting early is BETTER.

[@ianemmett]

A beautifully structured, articulated and relevant lecture. Brilliant.

[@BeckiLaurentTX]

I am new to the brain game. I'm interested in learning how to teach teachers how music can help kids develop these reading areas. Are there any resources you'd suggest? This is utterly fascinating. I am hooked!

[@lupe_eme]

Becki Laurent Hi Becki! I recently saw this, but sadly I only found it in spanish: twitter.com/sinapsis_2019/status/1229088650308325377?s=21

[@AleksandrGolovatyi]

Can we get slides from this presentation?

[@aizhanussenaliyeva7218]

Based on my research the channeling of data to analysis is a chemical reaction.

[@mamunurrashid5652]

//Phonics is superior to whole-word reading.....// Thanks!

[@mbatista5891]

I agree! Reading is math and should be tought in parts so it can be synchronized in the brains.

[@laisquintanilha8569]

Hoje eu assisti algumas vezes este vídeo e o que mais esperava dele não foi especificado, nomes de jogos realmente colaboradores/colaborativos para as crianças aprenderem em inglês, italiano ou português por exemplo.

[@ericsacramento]

GraphoGame: Learn to read 4+ (um dos jogos que ele falou, tem para Apple e Android).

[@horacles2001]

Can you provide the original video, and grant me authorization to place Spanish subtitles?

[@giselaespinosa584]

If you are granted to place the subs in spanish or know about any video with subs please, let me know. I would like to share this

[@wennadamulo2547]

Thank you for this superb presentation.

[@mshanh5145]

This is truly invaluable. It's so important to understand this in order to teach well I feel. As a teacher, I'm doing my best, so I really appreciate your presentation. Is there a way I can get a copy of your pdf?

[@SkepticalTeacher]

It would be interesting if they did the same studies on reading with blind people who learn to read using braille, and if the same parts of the brain are activated. I wonder if you are blind, what does the occipital lobe do, if you can't see anything?

[@namelessrationalist636]

The Visual Areas reorganize for the elaboration of somatosensory (tactile) inputs, it's called Cross-Modal Plasticity...

[@SoySigno]

Thanks. Excellent presentation. I wonder if reading can be understood as word decoding or if it is rather a process of inferences of social meaning... and thus if the brain deals with letter graphics or other types if associations. 🤔🤔

[@fatimasalem703]

I wish there was more to this video that included neurodivergent brains and how they work. Nonetheless, very informative video.

[@anasousa4320]

Imagino que o assunto é riquíssimo, mas infelizmente não pude me apropriar por não compreende. Deveria vir com legenda em português do Brasil

[@veragoodman5915]

How do you account for the fact that many children learn to read without phonics teaching?

[@BruceDeitrickPrice]

Vera Goodman Phonics is the logic of the language. A fairly large minority of children see the logic fairly quickly. Once you grasp the idea that a B is not a random shape but always represents the sound -buh, then you are on your way. (Whole Word, please note, carefully camouflages this essential fact by emphasizing the overall design of each word. Individual letters and their significance are submerged in the total-word-shape. That's how the public schools keep millions of children semi-literate.)

[@richardinhingham]

In our country almost half of our citizens are NOT reading at their full capacity. It is a terrible crime. SOME children rapidly acquire reading easily, even with minimal instruction. MANY do not. Of my four daughters only one learned to read easily. ALL were taught, but my early strugglers were not fluent readers until late second grade. From there they took off.

[@christopherlee5665]

WISE Channel Can you please allow me to make a copy of part of the presentation from 4:20 - 15:37 to present to my teaching colleagues?

[@zengzhaocheng]

start at 3:00

[@lorenacerrini4665]

What if students learning English for International communication ( EFL) confuse the letter sounds in their mother tongue while acquiring the letter sounds in L2 ? I am a teacher of English in Argentina and there have been cases in which students did struggle while blending words in Spanish which I found most surprising and alarming.. As regards whole Word reading , I was wondering if the so called 'tricky words' or words with irregular pronunciation are taken as exceptions and thus introduced for Kids to learn by heart. Thank you for shading some light

[@richardinhingham]

The vowel sounds that children learn are acquired between 6 months and 18 months. AFTER THAT they are IN and to learn additional or different language vowels they must be explicitly taught. So children with moms or early caretakers who are NOT native language speakers of the language which the child is learning will likely NOT teach them those critical vowel sounds. Another risk factor is early hearing issues in this age. As to the irregular words, YES, they must be memorized, usually by spelling. That is the only way to assure that they are learned.

[@loksangeetourtradition3556]

@@richardinhingham 🤗

[@danicagjurevski3370]

I tried to sign up for graphogame but is asks for a code from a scientist. Help please.

[@reshmiradhalaxmi]

Thank you

[@christopherlee5665]

Can I please have permission to make a copy of part of this presentation to present to teacher colleagues of mine?

[@goodstorylover]

Thank you, I was fascinated and actually started to take notes! Will definitely look up the books by this scientist.

[@surilshah459]

From where can I get this presentation?

[@milenakimiesato7202]

Could you please sent us the slides? If not, thank you anyway.

[@malindajb]

Reading via configuration is real

[@NaN-uz2jl]

It was so funny and smart to tell children that they are astronaut 😂🎉

[@esterbap]

Concordo com ele , a alfabetização no Brasil deve ser feita no primeiro ano. Os alunos perdem muito, quando não sabem ler. É preciso mudar isso, tornando a alfabetização efetiva. Jogá-la para os anos seguintes é uma péssima ideia.

[@gracesleu563]

I have a question about what you said with learning the Chinese language through sounds. I know Chinese and there is no connection between the characters of words to sounds. Please explain your comment in which you say, "Chinese there are characters and some of them map statistically to sounds." I disagree. Can you please give an example of this?

[@786fact]

I think this contant is too useful for students and Researchers like us. Thanks for this vedio. #786fact

[@betongnggaor1365]

Love this, konten

[@DOUBLE0SEVUN]

Interesting video but I question the ethics of those experiments.

[@carlosluis1970]

oh yeah, you rigth!, no develpment, let's go again to the forest and the caves!

[@kennarcenal]

Wow.... just wow!

[@_SFW]

👔

[@StudywithNainika]

Lovely session😀🙏

[@gleivanholanda5642]

pena que não tem legenda para Português Brasil !

[@hint7]

Aqui esta em português: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJ61dXmXd76fjdU

[@marcyb8473]

how do you get a code to register for graphogame?

[@owiridanielmajesty9530]

this is great

[@caoeason9102]

How about deaf people? How could they learn to read?

[@davidayer2168]

What does "our brain circuitry recycles several of its pre-existing visual and auditory areas in order to reorient them to the processing of letters and phonemes" mean?

[@richardinhingham]

There is NOT a "special reading place" but a series of brain elements that work together. AND they must be TAUGHT to work together. kzbin.info/www/bejne/imicqaljlLWWjsk

[@_SFW]

shed the gar 🤙

[@jwkelley]

Agree with a lot of stuff but I am not sure his quick dismissal of dyslexia being figured out works. I am sure there is some truth to it but it does not explain working memory issues, plasticity problems of knowledge transferring, correlations with auditory processing, and a wide array of other things. Dyslexia has become a rather catch all term though so its likely he has discovered some aspects / types of it. We have also been trying to train dyslexia away for 50 years, and while we have come up with great coping mechanisms we have not cured it so to speak.

[@funkdrunk]

simple cure for dyslexia: stop forcing kids to learn reading. Let them learn naturally when in need

[@laisquintanilha8569]

Informe nomes de jogos reamente úteis para alfabetizar em português, italiano e inglês, se souber, please, obrigada, gracias...⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️⚘️

[@NagendraKumarSinha]

Nice

[@sandeep13113]

Human brain 🧠 is the only thing which can't be read by someone

[@fernandocortes1187]

25:55 Ĺa fonetica es clave

[@fernandocortes1187]

3:00 Reading

[@richasehgal9295]

❤️❤️❤️💯 nice

[@fernandocortes1187]

15:37 Graphogame

[@JillBiteman]

oh

[@oderblock]

of no help IMHO. and then these questions....

[@funkdrunk]

Wrong! Children learn best to read when they do it on their own! Genius scientist, fantastic lecture, but "use Phonics" is an advice applicable to coercive schooling. Unschoolers read better. They focus on comprehension, not strategies! They know no dyslexia. Dr Peter Gray anyone?

[@ElnaWichmannHeath]

The speaker mentions self teaching at around 15h10. Even if you unschool, you would still supply your child with the resources required to learn. Even if a child learns to read by themselves, we supply them with the books to read, we can also supply them with the resources of the sounds of letters (phonics). A child learns the sound of a letter, they will comprehend it all in their own time.

[@funkdrunk]

@@ElnaWichmannHeath when you speak of sounds-letters, you already imply phonics. Instead of books, electronic materials are more fun. If you give a kid a laptop, you will have a reader sooner or later. No logistics necessary