How the Brain Learns to Read

By David A. Sousa and David A Sousa

Book Overview

Arm educators with the most current neuroscientific information available on reading and effective learning and start students down a lifelong path as successful readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412906016
• ISBN13: 9781412906012
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Corwin
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great BOOK!

I enjoyed this book VERY MUCH! It was a text for my student teaching and it was great! :-)

Fabulous information

Rather than lumping everyone into one box, this enlightens us to understand how the brain is so different in each individual impacting their ability to read, and learn in the process.

Chris Cannon, Author of "Diagnosing the Destruction of Young Men"

How The Brain Learns, is an exceptional resource for understanding the most effective ways to grasp information. This should be required reading for anyone in the educational field. It's helped to remove the barrier that stands in the way of average teachers becoming great and trouble students being seen as gifted. As the founder of www.Fighting4Youth.com, I've addressed these types of issues several times among students...

Awesome Info on Brain Development

I am a staff developer for teachers and parents regarding children from pre-birth to 99. The information that Sousa delivers in this text is invaluable. It helps us to understand in layman's terms, exactly what is involved in the brain and learning to read. Sousa is a topnotch author writing in a way that is so user friendly for parents, teachers, caretakers, administration.... I use his books like bibles when I instruct...

How the Brain Learns to Read

This book should be required reading for any teacher of reading. It is very readable and hard to put down.