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“Sixty words per minute for all”: Why this goal for the early grades?
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 ...
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A Brief History of Reading Instruction
A short history of reading instruction and in particular of the Whole language versus Phonics dispute.
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A history of disputes about reading instruction
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 ...
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A seven year study of the effects of synthetic phonics teaching on reading and spelling attainment
The report of a groundbreaking, seven-year research trial that was a powerful influence on the British government adopting systematic phonics as the best ...
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An exploratory study of early letter-sound knowledge in a low socio-economic context in South Africa
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 ...
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Are we country of cognitive genocide?
Full version of an article published in a condensed form by The Conversation on 26 February 2018 as "South Africa’s reading crisis is a cognitive catastrophe".
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At a Loss for Words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
Critique of whole language and balanced literacy approaches to teaching reading. Has a rich set of URLs to useful sources.
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Brain wave study shows how different teaching methods affect reading development
Popular report on Stanford University research led by Bruce McCandliss that provides some of the first evidence that a specific teaching strategy for reading ...
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CITE-ITEL
CITE-TEL is a web-based resource, the Critical, Interactive, Transparent & Evolving literature review in Initial Teacher Education in Literacy, hosted by the ...
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