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Grant Blankenship

A new way of teaching kids to read in Georgia

In structured literacy, students spend a lot of time learning how to break words down into bits of sound called phonemes. (Eliza Moore/Georgia Public Broadcasting)

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words.

"What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about twenty kids.

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