Research and Practice Library
The articles and resources in our Research and Practice Library form a contemporary evidence base for the teaching and learning of reading and viewing; writing and representing; speaking and listening.
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The Science of Reading Progresses: Communicating Advances Beyond the Simple View of Reading
Nell Duke & Kelly B. Cartwright The simple view of reading is commonly presented to educators in professional development about the science of reading. The simple view is a useful tool for conveying the undeniable importance – in fact necessity – of both decoding…
The Science of Adolescent Literacy
George Hruby and Leslie Burns in Critical Perspectives on Literacy Policy and Practice Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy Vol 3 No6 pp. 693-696 In this paper Hruby and Burns critique the use of the phrase ‘science of reading’. Their main concern is that the…
A Brief History of ‘The Reading Wars’
Brian Cambourne, University of Wollongong, April 2021 Brian Cambourne provides a summary of the history of the debates about reading instruction dating from as far back as 1779 and outlines the debates that have occurred, and reoccurred through the 1950’s, 1960’s,…
Reading for pleasure
Michael Rosen, 26 February 2021 In this blog, well-known author Michael Rosen unpacks the question How does Reading for Pleasure produce this seemingly magic effect without direct instruction? To answer that question, Rosen looks at the process of…
Everybody’s Selling It- But just what is explicit, systematic phonics instruction?
Heidi Anne E. Mesmer & Priscilla L. Griffith. (2005) International Reading Association (pp. 366–376) Very experienced K-3 teachers from across the United States, who were members of the ‘International Reading association’, responded to a questionnaire…
Progress in Reading Instruction Requires a Better Understanding of the English Spelling System
Bowers, J. and Bowers, P. This article suggests reading instruction should be informed by building teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge about English spellings, namely the knowledge that spelling is organised by both phonology and morphology as English is a…
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