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Since teaching reading is so complex, why are the conclusions about it in the Greene report so simple? As the esteemed reading researcher and teacher educator Louisa Moats famously said
To teach reading effectively teachers must understand the complex cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of reading development and the research on effective reading instructional practices that inform effective teaching. This is central to our efforts in the Faculty of Education in preparing teachers to teach reading.
As professors specializing in reading development and instruction, we were surprised to read that "Experts and parents have indicated to PERT that the new reading and math specialists added in response to