The scientific study of reading has taught us much about the beginnings of reading in
childhood, with clear evidence that the gateway to reading opens when children are able to …

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

Recently, there has been growing concern about how to most effectively support the literacy
development of beginning and struggling readers with regard to hel** them learn to …

Publisher Summary A good deal has been learned about the basic parameters of
orthographic learning, but many researchers in this field have observed that less is known …

The present study examined the possibility that spelling fulfils a self‐teaching function in the
acquisition of orthographic knowledge because, like decoding, it requires close attention to …

The self‐teaching hypothesis describes how children progress toward skilled sight‐word
reading. It proposes that children do this via phonological recoding with assistance from …

The self-teaching hypothesis proposes that orthographic learning takes place via
phonological decoding in meaningful texts, that is, in context. Context is proposed to be …

We know that from mid-childhood onwards most new words are learned implicitly via
reading; however, most word learning studies have taught novel items explicitly. We …

In this secondary analysis study, the authors explored the relations between reading
comprehension and oral reading performance in fourth‐grade students, using a data set …

This study investigated the relevance of type of practice and presence of semantic
representation for orthographic learning in learning to spell. A total of 36 students in Grade 2 …