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January 5, 2021 28 mins

Published Under Former Name: K12ish, now The Edtech Incubator.

Is there are better way to teach students to read than traditional phonics?

Zachary Silverzweig and the team at TinyIvy think so. That’s why they set out to create a new and improved English alphabet that works as a pronunciation guide for new and emerging readers. 

It sounds radical, until you realize that hundreds of millions of people already read like this in other languages.

But putting it into play in the United States does require some radical and visionary thinking. And that’s what we dive into during this episode.

Check it out. 

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