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...
Comprende? Reading comprehension: a skill to be taught?
All phonics instruction is not the same.
Bad science = the end of phonics.
Rudolph Flesch points out the elephant in the room...
Virtual insanity in reading instruction - teaching reading without words.
Huey and Dewey - no Disney double act.
The very peculiar case of Goodman, Smith and Clay (or why the whole language approach just wont die)
First there was the word and the word became God...but what about the letters?
How assessment and inspections ruined reading - England 1870.
Short-term gains, long-term pain: 'The Word Method' starts to take hold...