Abstract This essay is about the improbable emergence of written language six millennia ago that gave rise to the even more improbable, highly sophisticated reading brain of the twenty-first century. How it emerged and what it comprises – both in its most basic iteration in the very young reader and in its most elaborated iteration in the expert reader – is a story with several important lessons for how we think about reading development and how we approach reading challenges like dyslexia. For, an understanding of how the reading brain develops gives educators a unique lens on what the child has to learn, what the teacher would be wise to teach, and why the organization of the brain of an individual with dyslexia has precious little to do with reading.

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阅读大脑在阅读发展和阅读障碍方面的经验教训

摘要 这篇文章是关于六千年前不可能出现的书面语言，它导致了 21 世纪更加不可能的、高度复杂的阅读大脑。它是如何出现的以及它包含的内容——无论是在非常年轻的读者中的最基本的迭代还是在专业读者中最详尽的迭代——是一个关于我们如何思考阅读发展以及我们如何应对阅读挑战的重要课程的故事像阅读障碍。因为，对阅读大脑如何发展的理解为教育工作者提供了一个独特的视角来了解孩子必须学习什么、老师教什么是明智的，以及为什么阅读障碍者的大脑组织与以下内容几乎没有关系读。