Episode 1: A Brief History of Reading

Books in the Wild by Keri Schroeder

Feb 16, 201700:23:51Arts

Today's episode is all about reading - what it means to read, how we read, and a brief history of reading. I'll talk about literacy rates, the alphabetic principle, phonetics, and nonsense poems by Lewis Carroll.

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