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Willingham, Daniel T. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2017
Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your brain right now--as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the innumerable and amazing connections that your mind is making as you, in a flash, make sense of this request? "Why does it matter?" "The Reading Mind" is a brilliant, beautifully crafted, and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Cognitive Processes, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Humbert, Mary Beth C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Beginning readers and struggling readers need explicit, systematic instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics (Adams, 2008; Ehri,1992, 1998; Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, & Yaghoub-Zadeh, 2001; Gaskins et al., 1997; Moats, 2004; Morris, 2015; National Reading Panel, 2000; Reutzel, 2015). Ehri and McCormick's (2008) phases of word learning…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Grade 1, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction
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Baylis, Pamela; Snowling, Margaret J. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2012
This article reports the evaluation of a 10-week phonologically-based literacy programme involving 10 children with Down syndrome (DS). At the outset, each child relied on a whole word method of reading with no apparent use of decoding strategies. The reading and phonological skills of the children were assessed twice prior to undertaking the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Down Syndrome