The Reading Ape

Edmund Burke Huey was the most influential writer on reading instruction in the twentieth century. His bestselling ‘The Psychology and...

It would appear that reading difficulties for children fall into two broad categories: developmental dyslexia – extreme decoding problems...

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

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...

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:...