Children who barely manage to maintain their upper-middle class status while spending their days filled with private education and pressure from their parents to study.
However, children who have low literacy skills because reading is put on the back burner and thus rely even more on listening classes.
As these children advance in grade level, their underlying strengths become apparent and their grades gradually decline.
Because they don't have the strength to understand the more complex texts they have to read and the more complex stories they have to hear as they enter upper elementary, middle, and high school.
If your child studies hard and attends many academies, but their grades continue to drop as they advance in grade level, this is why you need to focus on literacy first.

--- From "Why literacy alone can predict grades"

Parents often have a hard time understanding why their children can't grasp even simple things if they don't understand the content of the book.
Then, we will explain the contents of the book directly.
It doesn't lead you to understand and think about the content of the text, but rather explains the plot of the book you just read.
But the problem isn't that the child doesn't understand what he's reading.
The real problem is a fundamental lack of literacy to understand the content of the book.
If you lack literacy, no matter how well you explain the contents of a particular book, it will not help you understand the contents of other books.
Because the contents of this book and that book are different.
The important thing is not to know the contents of a single book, but to develop the literacy to read any book.

--- From "Reading That Cannot Be Called Reading"

Literacy is a lifelong learning skill, but the period in which reading is learned in school is limited to the first and second grades of elementary school.
After the third grade, education is conducted on the assumption that students can read.
However, the reading that can be learned in the first and second grades of elementary school is only the 'minimum of reading'.
In terms of a baby's development, it's like the baby is just starting to walk.
If we assume that children who can barely walk can run, how can we possibly teach them effectively? Knowledge in each subject advances at breakneck speed, but if a child's literacy skills are weak and they're still toddling, how can they possibly learn effectively?
--- From "Literacy Determines Lifelong Learning"

How well you learn and know academic vocabulary is directly related to your academic performance.
Because vocabulary is both concept and knowledge.
Simply put, studying is the act of collecting and understanding academic vocabulary.
Physics is about understanding words like motion, speed, velocity, acceleration, mass, and tension, and the relationships between them, while world history is about knowing words like civilization, empire, Hellenism, feudalism, religious reform, and monarchy, and their examples.
--- From "Language skills increase study speed"

If the 'beginner reading brain' is the brain of a worker who has to do the arduous and difficult process himself, the 'skilled reading brain' is like the brain of a boss who just gives orders and rests during the entire process.
But since it's not a business, there's no need to worry about it failing, and it's easy and convenient.
So, without exception, children who love books are children who have reached a level of reading proficiency.
If you can't reach this level, it's hard to enjoy reading.
Who enjoys a tedious and arduous process? So, to enjoy reading, it's crucial to first "automate" a significant portion of the reading process.
Reading becomes fun when your eyes just walk over the letters and the sounds and meanings come to greet you.

--- From "Reading is done with the 'brain', not the 'eyes'"

Learning to read independently means that you are just beginning to learn to read aloud.
If you stop reading to your child when he or she can read aloud, your child's literacy development will be halted too early.
It is said that the ability to read and understand becomes similar to the ability to listen and understand around the second year of middle school.
It means that until they reach the second year of middle school, they will understand even things they don't understand if you tell them about them.
So, it is helpful for parents to read to their children until this point.

--- From "The amount of reading parents do is a measure of literacy"

Traditional reading classes are like a written driver's license test.
It's something you need to know, but knowing it doesn't make you a good driver.
Even if you start out not knowing much, there are aspects you will come to know as you go along.
There is a huge gap between knowing and doing.
So, while you may take traditional reading classes that focus on what you "know" and do well on written tests, it's not easy to "do" actual reading well.
To actually read well, it is important to read often.
It's not about acquiring reading knowledge.
In the written driver's license test, they tell you to look ahead and look left and right.
But how can you keep your eyes focused forward while also looking left and right? It may seem counterintuitive, but in real life, you need to keep your eyes focused forward while also looking left and right.
You have to make the knowledge you don't understand just by hearing it your own by actually trying it out.

--- From "Classes alone are not enough"

The important point is that there is no such thing as complete and permanent reading independence, as reading level must be judged individually for each text.
Reading independence means being able to read 'a specific text' on your own, not 'all texts' on your own.
For example, even if a second grader becomes independent readers of picture books and short stories, he or she may be at a guided reading level for some other books and at a frustrated reading level for others.
It's not that it can't be, it's just that it has to be.
Even if a second grader is a good reader, he or she will not be able to read Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" or Yuval Harari's "Sapiens" with ease.
What this means is that no human, including adults, can attain a perfect level of reading independence.

--- From "Why literacy alone can predict grades"