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An appallingly tardy response to such an important element of reading - apologies. The growing recognition of fluency as the crucial developmental area for primary education is certainly encouraging helping
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Interesting that the introduction of Pinyin (Chinese Phonetic Alphabet) prior to learning the Chinese characters appears to have transformed Chinese literacy rates (Meng, 2002) - although literacy is defined by
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This is a really interesting question and, in essence, asks what reading comprehension actually is. Beck et al. (1997) argued that it has historically been viewed as the extraction of
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A straw poll among 25 NQTs last year suggested that they had, on average, received 2 hours (in total) of phonics training from their ITT institutions.https://twitter.com/MrMcCormackHOY/status/1343651239729496064 Perhaps this is why
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Rayner et al. (2012)- 'Silent reading tests indicate a child's independent reading level relative to their grade and age, but they do not provide information about the development of underlying
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So were the reading wars merely a misunderstanding...? In 1886 James Cattle discovered that words could be read faster than individual letters. So, if we read words faster than
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A long answer. Let us assume that schools are following a code emphasis approach to reading instruction and not a meaning emphasis model (whole language). This approach requires letter-sound correspondences
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