Brain’s Innate Capacity for Reading

This is a continuation of my post yesterday found here.

Renee Harding asked the following question:

If the majority of kids were somehow figuring out how to read (i.e., stumbling upon, “discovering,” or activating that “innate” ability [that doesn’t exist]), then why are so few students reading proficiently?!

I have said in several of my blog that reading is an innate ability contrary to what the general opinion is. I based this on observation of my students whom I started teaching in 2004 to learn why kids were able to read in Malay but not in English.

A Twitter discussion with Renee Harding -19.7.23

 

Here is a Twitter discussion with Renee Harding on kids figuring out how to read.

Luqman Michel @luqmanmichel

No! There is absolutely no need to teach all the phonemes. I have said several times that even when phonemes are taught wrongly a majority of kids somehow figure out how to read.

Renee Harding @rhardin29556971

If the majority of kids were somehow figuring out how to read (i.e., stumbling upon, “discovering,” or activating that “innate” ability [that doesn’t exist]), then why are so few students reading proficiently?!