Erik Hoel
@erikphoel
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Placeholder for the scientist and author. Mostly on Substack not Twitter. https://t.co/CKyLzw5bHK
Joined November 2013
62% of American kids have a tablet at age 6. They spend 3.5 hours every day on screens (increasingly, TikTok). And because our school system waits so long to teach reading, they never get a chance to become readers.
theintrinsicperspective.com
And neuromyths aren't helping
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RT @NielsHoven: @phillamb168 Oh this is really good, I’ve never seen those old primers before. Love this @erikphoel !.
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RT @phillamb168: @NielsHoven just in case you haven’t seen this already
theintrinsicperspective.com
And neuromyths aren't helping
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RT @mertonesque: my daughter's new thing is to pick up a book and say in a very distressed tone of voice "I DON'T KNOW THE WORDS!!!", she i….
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RT @Syndicate_X_: Important reading for parents, educators, or anyone who cares about books. Great piece!.
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RT @chaslutz: @erikphoel Ironically the one argument with any basis in fact (but which they would never mention anyways)—that early reading….
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RT @SarahTheHaider: Somewhat related recommendation: . I've been teaching my 4 year old to read using a phonics program book from the 80s c….
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7. Some say modern early reading is again an unfairness (reserved for “gentry”) and really about the academic rat race. But it’s quite the opposite. “Literacy lag” ensures that tablets/iPads have an unfair advantage vs reading for how kids spend their time
theintrinsicperspective.com
And neuromyths aren't helping
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RT @benspringwater: @erikphoel I've been doing "dad school" with my almost 3 yo for the past two months since reading your series on teachi….
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RT @notadampaul: my son will be born in October, and while I was already planning to read with him as early as possible, the great work and….
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RT @KelseyTuoc: as Erik goes on to outline, this is absolute nonsense pseudoscience. lots of 3 year old really, really enjoy learning to re….
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RT @KelseyTuoc: A 5yo who can read is more meaningfully free and independent than a 5yo who can't. Her world is bigger and more exciting. T….
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RT @PhilipDBunn: e.g., my 2yo can name most rainbow colors pretty consistently. His sister was there a little earlier. The 4yo can (with so….
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RT @PhilipDBunn: This kind of stuff is more and more mind-blowing to me now, having a 4yo and a 2yo.
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6. People have learned to read very early throughout history! In fact it appears that "2/3rd of landed gentry" learned to read based on primers for the very young (2-4 age range)
In comparison, due to "aristocratic tutoring" the education of Europe in the 1600-1800s used to be very advanced. Check out the title and suggested age range of the primer that "Probably three fourths of the gentry of the last three generations have learnt to read by."
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RT @noahxaviersmits: @erikphoel What!? I’ve always credited my love of literature as an adult to my parents putting significant time into t….
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How can someone believe that it's developmentally inappropriate to teach a 3-year-old what an "A" is? (this person once helped implement No Child Left Behind, btw)
1. "Education experts" have been saying for decades that we must wait to start teaching reading until 6-7 for neuroscientific reasons. These reasons appear, as far as I can tell, to be basically made up. Consider this recent article, which quotes a bunch of experts on this.
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