The Reading Ape

The purpose of reading, according to Elder and Paul (2006:3) is to ‘figure out what an author has to say on a subject’. This ‘figuring...

‘The question for teachers is no longer “look and say” or phonics. Instead, the question is which phonics programmes are most effective’,...

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a good reader will make predictions whilst reading a text. As a result, predicting has...

The point of mastering the procedural knowledge of decoding text, recoding text, practicing decoding to facilitate the word superiority...

In 2020 the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) ( educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk ., 2020) stated in their online phonic toolkit...

Systematic phonics instruction has been described as the nearest thing to a silver bullet for the development of literacy. With all the...

‘The question for teachers is no longer “look and say” or phonics. Instead, the question is which phonics programmes are most effective…’...

Although educational research was in its infancy in the early decades of the twentieth century there was sufficient concern and curiosity...

Huey’s (1908) ‘scientific’ proof that phonic instruction was a superfluous, torpid stage of reading development resulted in a revival of...

Edmund Burke Huey was the most influential writer on reading instruction in the twentieth century. His bestselling ‘The Psychology and...