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Collette Greystone's avatar

I homeschooled a highly gifted student. In my substack, I write to a millennial and genZ audience, so my writing is simple and quick to read. We pretty much wrote the same piece, yours is a beautiful scientific explanation of what I did as a homeschooling mom to teach my kiddo phonics. I used the McGuffey readers. He loved them. I’m glad I stumbled onto your Substack.

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Jon Fox MD's avatar

Please permit me to comment as a non-professional but concerned grandparent. It seems obvious that reading aloud to kids in school is never going to be enough. The only way we can hope to move the needle is ensuring that kids from lower income levels are exposed to reading knowledge in their lives outside the classroom. Family members must be enlisted as literacy agents for our little ones. But how to do this effectively, inexpensively, sustainably, and delightfully? Maybe my free new read aloud app can help? Check out Read Me A Story on the App Store and let's start a conversation?

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