We recently had a little catch-up with our US literacy expert, Alyssa O’Rourke and this struck us as something we have to share. Read our article on how, evolutionary speaking, learning to read is actually a very difficult skill. tym.st/dxzhbc #learningtoread #earlyreading #literacy

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