How America helped ruin English reading instruction...with some help from the Germans.
If in England, the development of a system of teaching reading to the masses was a historic catalogue of failure then in America, the...
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Universal literacy...not in England - the historical roots of a divided education system.
The worrying levels of illiteracy in England has its roots in a system of teaching reading that was heavily biased against the masses; a...
Reading Comprehension - let's talk about it.
Pressley and Afflerbach’s (1995) assertion that comprehension was a moment by moment process affected by complex interactions influenced...
Why English is just so darned difficult to decode - a short history...
The eventual decline of the Roman empire resulted in a waning of the dominance of Latin across Europe as it retreated to Rome along with...
Phonics 2000 years ago - Quintilian...the accidental phonics genius with a toxic legacy.
The teaching of the skills to decipher ‘the small, black marks on white paper,’ (Dehaene, 2009, p1) that in objective combinations form...
Why the reading brain can't cope with triple cueing.
Information processing theory attempts to articulate the unobservable through models that illustrate a cognitive-processing perspective...
The final battle of the reading wars? Why 1965 should have marked the end of the war.
Where Flesch’s (1955) ‘Why Johnny Can’t Read’ stole the headlines, it was Terman and Walcutt’s ‘Reading Chaos and Cure’ (1958) that...
Reading the brain - what MRI scanning tells us about reading.
If information processing theory attempts to articulate the unobservable (Tracey and Morrow, 2012), then it is relevant to explore, with...
Phonics - the lever of civilisation.
The evolution of oppositional thumbs and an erect stature have been fundamental developments in mankind, but when the ancients suggested...
Why performance management doesn't manage to perform.
Is there anyone out there whose heart does not sink at the thought of setting performance management objectives?Is there anyone who does...
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