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Short paper arguing that failure to learn reading is the primary reason for repetition in the early grades. Students cannot learn from books until they can ...

A short history of reading instruction and in particular of the Whole language versus Phonics dispute.

Discusses the disputes internationally and in Australia on how reading is taught and raises the important issue of the lack of impact of research on teaching ...

This glossary was compiled by members of the Consolidated Literacy Working Group in the course of their working on various projects of the group. It has no ...

The report of a groundbreaking, seven-year research trial that was a powerful influence on the British government adopting systematic phonics as the best ...

Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020 that outlines the Molteno Institute’s work on graded readers basic on the phonics of South African ...

Final report of a successful project, begun in 1997, to effectively eradicate functional illiteracy among young people through a multiple-component ...

Nick Taylor coauthored this article published in Research in Comparative and International Education

A South African research study that argues for the importance of letter-sound knowledge in the earliest stages of children learning to read and in particular ...