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This is why a skilled reader can recognize words quickly, EVeN whEn WRittEn l1k3 thIs. Words and letters are stored in the letterbox – not as individually memorized shapes or patterns, but as symbols. It doesn’t exist in very young children or illiterate adults, and it’s activated less in people with dyslexia, who have a physiological difference in the way their brains process written text. The letterbox is a special stopover on the word’s journey because it only develops as the result of learning to read. This is where the black squiggles are recognized as letters in a word.

From there, it travels to the left fusiform gyrus, otherwise known as the brain’s “letterbox”.

When a skilled reader encounters a printed word, that information travels from their eyes to their occipital lobe (at the back of the brain), where it is processed like any other visual stimulus.

Here’s the technical breakdown of what happens in the brain when we read: Reading becomes a way of accessing language by sight, which means it builds on architecture that is already used for recognizing visual patterns and understanding/producing spoken language. To some extent, this explains why some students come to school more “ready to read” than others their parents have engaged in activities (lots of reading to children, experience with books and how they work, pointing out letters and sounds, etc.) that have begun to forge those connections, so they arrive with some of the structure already in place. The more and stronger the connections, the better a reader you will be.

It’s all of these connections that house our ability to read. Instead, a network of connections develops to link existing areas that weren’t previously linked. Now we know that this “reading center” is a myth. Initially, researchers believed that there was a “reading center” in the brain - one area that would materialize as a child became literate. Reading is an immensely complex process for the brain that takes extensive practice to develop the connections to support processes and reach proficiency.