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The character of writing systems - characters or letters; which is better?

Alphabetic writing systems, though ubiquitous are not universal. Non-alphabetic writing systems are not, however, anachronistic and, sug...

Dyslexia...Disputed? Distortive? Disease? Discuss...

In 1896 a paper entitled ‘A case of congenital word blindness’ in the British Medical Journal (Morgan, 1896) reported the case of a 14-ye...

The Eyes Have It - what eye movements can tell us about reading instruction.

We may never know how we learn to read and what the cognitive processes of a skilled, fluent reader actually involve. Although fMRI scan...

Not so simple...The Simple View of Reading.

At the heart of the conflict between whole language approaches to reading and code emphasis approaches appears to be a confusion between...

Controlling the text - the dilemma of decodable texts.

Code-based instruction explicitly and purposely teaches letter-sound correspondences systematically. Chall’s (1967) review of reading st...

All References...

Adams, F. and Gray, L., 1949. Teaching Children To Read. New York: Ronald Press. Adams, M. and Bruck, M. (1993). Word recognition: The in...

So, you're going to be a primary/elementary school teacher...

So, you’re going to teach children to read… Learning how to read is the single most important skill a child develops in primary/elementar...

What lies beneath - child development prior to reading.

The complexities, challenges and difficulties of learning to read do not start on a child’s first day at school. Considerable developmen...

Theoretical models of reading - better informed but none the wiser?

For skilled readers, silently reading text feels no more demanding than listening to an audiobook and in many ways can be easier: passage...

IS READING COMPREHENSION AN ACTUAL THING?

The purpose of reading, according to Elder and Paul (2006:3) is to ‘figure out what an author has to say on a subject’. This ‘figuring o...

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The Reading Ape

Nullius in verba