The literacy debate rages over a child’s ability to learn to read. We know that it's tied up in two things:

• 1. Phonetic awareness – for example, the idea that an “a” makes an “ay” sound or an “ah” sound.
• 2. A child's exposure to "whole language" – the oral, written and spoken quality of social language.

Software programs tend to focus more on #1 than #2. And that's exacerbated by the fact that #2 is what most often gets left behind in a digital world, where both children AND their parents are spending eight hours a day plugged into one digital media outlet or another -- and reading less than ever before . Really.

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