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...
Totally automatic - the sticking point between phonics and fluency.Phonics is certainly fundamental to reading fluency but there seems to be a missing link. Children learn how to read fluently at...
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...
Express yourself! Prosodic reading and why it is so important.For reading to be fluent it must be accurate, at a reasonable rate and prosodic (Kuhn and Stahl, 2003). Accuracy and speed pertain to...
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...
Efficacy vs intuition - phonics goes for a knockout blow in the late 19th century but is floored by By the late nineteenth century in the United States the vice-like grip of the whole-word method on initial reading instruction and the...
Martin Luther - the unshackling of literacy - but a fatal flaw.Learning to read is only worthwhile if, firstly, there is something to read, secondly, the reading of that text is worthwhile and...