You will have the opportunity to explore the reading brain from the perspectives of education, psychology and neuroscience. Learning to read is an amazingly complex task that requires the development, interconnection and coordination of multiple skills and neural systems. In this interactive seminar, you will examine scientific evidence concerning the development of a brain that can read, from the visual processing of letters, to the linking of those letters with the sounds of language, to making meaningful connections to what the reader already knows. We will also consider children who are struggling to develop these skills and systems. A major theme of the workshop will be the remarkable plasticity of the human brain: Educators and students together are literally building brains that can read. When appropriate, topics will be mapped to the K-5 ELA Common Core State Standards.