The Reading Ape

In April 1967, Kenneth Goodman presented his landmark paper at the American Educational Research Association. ‘Reading: A...

The word method of teaching reading dominated instruction methods for a century with its word lists and flash cards and repeated...

However, confused and ineffective the teaching of reading had become in the United States in the nineteenth century, at least there was...

‘It is not perhaps, very important that a child know the letters before he begins to read. It may learn first to read words by seeing...

If in England, the development of a system of teaching reading to the masses was a historic catalogue of failure then in America, the...

The worrying levels of illiteracy in England has its roots in a system of teaching reading that was heavily biased against the masses; a...

Pressley and Afflerbach’s (1995) assertion that comprehension was a moment by moment process affected by complex interactions influenced...

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...

The teaching of the skills to decipher ‘the small, black marks on white paper,’ (Dehaene, 2009, p1) that in objective combinations form...

Information processing theory attempts to articulate the unobservable through models that illustrate a cognitive-processing perspective...