The Reading Ape

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

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

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

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

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

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 teach children to read… Learning how to read is the single most important skill a child develops in...

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

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

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...