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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...

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 cem...

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 e...

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The Reading Ape

Nullius in verba