{"id":882,"date":"2004-04-27T02:46:58","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T02:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=882"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"literacy-good-teachers-have-power-to-change-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"literacy: good teachers have power to change brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Brain-imaging studies show that effective teaching  can make the brains of poor readers function like those of fluent  readers. Bennett Shaywitz of Yale University and his colleagues report  in the May 1 issue of <em>Biological Psychiatry<\/em> that they scanned the brains  of 77 children between the ages of 6 and 9 as they read. Of the poor  readers in the group, some had standard instruction in reading, while  others were enrolled in an intensive reading program focusing on phonics  and phonemes, the individual sounds that make up words. The students in  the intensive program made strong gains inreading accuracy,  comprehension, and fluency over the school year compared to the poor  readers in the standard program, and their brain scans showed increased  activity in an area of the brain that recognizes words automatically  without first having to puzzle them out, similar to the brain scans of  good readers. In a press release, coauthor Sally Shaywitz said the study  shows that &#8220;teaching matters and good teaching can change the brain in a  way that has the potential to benefit struggling readers.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 4\/27\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain-imaging studies show that effective teaching can make the brains of poor readers function like those of fluent readers. Bennett Shaywitz of Yale University and his colleagues report in the May 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry that they scanned the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=882\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}