The Reading Ape

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...

‘The question for teachers is no longer “look and say” or phonics. Instead, the question is which phonics programmes are most effective’,...

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a good reader will make predictions whilst reading a text. As a result, predicting has...

The point of mastering the procedural knowledge of decoding text, recoding text, practicing decoding to facilitate the word superiority...

With a quarter of ten and eleven year-olds in England unable to read to the expected standard (DfE, 2018), and with the majority of those...

Systematic phonics instruction has been described as the nearest thing to a silver bullet for the development of literacy. With all the...

‘The question for teachers is no longer “look and say” or phonics. Instead, the question is which phonics programmes are most effective…’...

Although educational research was in its infancy in the early decades of the twentieth century there was sufficient concern and curiosity...

By 1955, the American academic elite had come to an almost universal conclusion: phonics was dangerous. In that year the most eminent...