How do children learn to read? This literacy expert says 'there are as many ways as there are students'

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and 4 percentage points below 2019 levels.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-04-children-literacy-expert-ways-students.html