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Reading instruction and phonics: theory and practice for teachers
A clear and detailed guide to teaching English literacy through a synthetic phonics approach. Provides a detailed sequence of instruction.
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Parts, Wholes and Context in reading: a triple dissociation
Elegant research study which found that the proportion of the three components of fluent reading are 62% phonic decoding, 16% whole (high frequency) word ...
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The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition
Looks at the whether objects are recognized by parts or as wholes and looks specifically at word recognition, finding that a word is unreadable unless its ...
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Literacy: a cultural influence on functional left-right differences in the inferior parietal cortex
A study showing that the brains of illiterates are consistently more right-lateralized than with literates and that, therefore, literacy influences the ...
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Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research. A review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018
This article evaluates South African research from two annotated bibliographies on reading in African languages at home language level (2004–2017) and South ...
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Supporting transition or playing catch-up in Grade 4? Implications for standards in education and training
Description of an intervention programme designed to support the transition to English as the medium of instruction in Grade 4 in a township school, using a ...
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How psychological science informs the teaching of reading
Detailed paper on the experiments showing the phonic basis of reading.
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How should reading be taught?
Popular article on their research showing the phonic basis of reading.
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Reading in African languages - an Annotated Bibliography
This annotated bibliography was compiled by Professor Lilli Pretorius of UNISA as part of the Primary Teacher Education Project (PrimTEd). It gives a summary ...
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Learning to read and reading to learn
Succinct description of the data on early reading in South Africa with five policy recommendations
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