Merriam-Webster’s recent word play is part of a larger leftist strategy to either make up new words or redefine existing terms to make them fit the liberal narrative.
This valuable study relating brain anatomy to reading ability in children studied longitudinally finds that a difference in sulcal anatomy is more predictive of reading ability than cognitive measures ...
The answer depends on what children need to know to read at a given grade level ... and sounds and spelling-sound correspondences; allows fluent phonologic decoding Sight word acquisition ...