Some environmental influences, including intentional interventions, have shown persistent
effects on psychological characteristics and other socially important outcomes years and …

We summarize some of the most important findings from research evaluating the
hypothesized causes of specific reading disability ('dyslexia') over the past four decades …

Across multiple schools and sites, the impact of grade-at-intervention was evaluated for
children at risk or meeting criteria for reading disabilities. A multiple-component reading …

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives
Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in …

Can the science of reading contribute to improving educational practices, allowing more
students to become skilled readers? Much has been learned about the behavioral and brain …

Research Methods for Education, Second Edition takes the student by the hand and guides
them through the complex subject of research methods in an engaging, witty and clear way …

Biases in pre-service teachers' evaluations of students' performance may arise due to
stereotypes (eg, the assumption that students with a migrant background have lower …

During the past decade, responsiveness to intervention (RTI) has become popular among
many practitioners as a means of transforming schooling into a multilevel prevention system …

There is a widespread consensus in the research community that reading instruction in
English should first focus on teaching letter (grapheme) to sound (phoneme) …

In this chapter, the authors consider oral reading fluency as an indicator of overall reading
competence. They examine theoretical arguments for supposing that oral reading fluency …