Rachael Garnick - Reading and Comprehension - Evening WURDs 5.14.26

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Rachael Garnick is the Coalition Manager of the Pennsylvania Literacy Coalition and Teach PLUS Pennsylvania, where she leads a statewide initiative to advance early literacy policy and promote the science of reading. She joined Dr. Peterson to discuss the story of the viral video of the Philadelphia student asking his classmates how to read and comprehend the sentence: 'She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche', where many students failed on the words 'silhouette' and 'extraordinary'.

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