Hyperlexia - a deficit or a super-ability?
It would appear that reading difficulties for children fall into two broad categories: developmental dyslexia – extreme decoding problems...
"From decoding to automaticity - the missing link" - The Reading Ape webinar recording.
STEP Ahead Teaching School Hub have made a recording of the webinar available - click here - the password is: tra.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Decisions, decisions - can research help identify the best phonics programme?
‘The question for teachers is no longer “look and say” or phonics. Instead, the question is which phonics programmes are most effective’,...
I predict...a riot?
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a good reader will make predictions whilst reading a text. As a result, predicting has...
Comprende? Reading comprehension: a skill to be taught?
The point of mastering the procedural knowledge of decoding text, recoding text, practicing decoding to facilitate the word superiority...