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How Children Learn To Read on the Internet

While one in five of our children still cannot read at 11, many are now fixing that on the Internet

The Internet has proved an extremely good medium for that, despite some people's reservations. Here's why:

1 It is on the computer. Children naturally like doing activities on the computer.

2 You can deliver immense technical expertise to coaching individual children. The truth is that teaching literacy well is a technical activity that takes a lot of training. And yet children need daily coaching. The Internet is an extremely practical way to do that.

3 The child is just working one-on-one with the computer. This makes it a more private and less stressful experience than working with an adult, when reading is a struggle.

4 It is adaptable. The computer can sense the ease or difficulty that a child is having and adjust an activity accordingly. So, as the child improves he or she can stay within a narrow "challenged but comfortable" zone.

5 The daily rhythm and dosing of new materials can be exactly controlled. 10 minutes of fresh, active learning is much more powerful than 30 minutes of trudging through materials.

The results speak for themselves. We have seen many children who have struggled for years with their reading crack it in just a few weeks

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