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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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“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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Illiteracy: The neuropsychology of cognition without reading
This literature review records that learning to read reinforces and modifies certain fundamental abilities, such as verbal and visual memory, phonological ...
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Putting reading in Northern Sotho on track in the early years: Changing resources, expectations and practices in a high poverty school
Groundbreaking study of a grade 1 reading intervention in a high poverty school over a four year period that found that improvements in reading in the African ...
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Literacy acquisition: Some general findings from recent research
A summary of a key chapter on literacy acquisition from Helena Abadzi’s well known book.
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Why can’t a teacher be more like a scientist? Science, Pseudoscience and the Art of Teaching
The article provides a useful examination of the distinction between science and pseudoscience, outlines the characteristics of good educational research and ...
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English Language Arts and Reading Generalist EC–6 Standards
Twelve well thought out standards with details on What teachers know and on What teachers can do for each standard
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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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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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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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