The Reading Ape

Kenneth Goodman and Frank Smith’s whole language theory of reading, whereby decoding and word recognition are eschewed for the pursuit of...

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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...