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Hard Words Science of Reading Hard Words By Emily Hanford Illustration by Katherine Zhou for APM Reports In Emily Hanford's podcast Hard Words, she begins, "It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, …

Fast Facts Vocabulary Fast Facts Did you know that adults have a very large library of words that they read automatically? Amongst literate adults this library can contain between 30,000 and 70,000 words. Teachers call these sight words. These are words …

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