Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Purpose Orthographic knowledge refers to the information that is stored in memory that tells
us how to represent spoken language in written form. Unfortunately, terms used to talk about …

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

This accessible text brings together research on word reading and comprehension
development, which are often treated separately, and provides a comprehensive and …

Our contribution to this special issue on reading theory questions the effectiveness of the
prevailing interventions intended to improve word-reading and reading comprehension …

The visual attention (VA) span deficit hypothesis was found successfully to account for
variability in developmental dyslexia (Bosse, Tainturier & Valdois, 2007). We conducted a …

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 authors examined second grade reading accuracy and fluency and their associations
via letter knowledge to phonological and language predictors assessed at 3.5, 4.5, and 5.5 …

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 …