Reading a word involves complex interactions between spelling, meaning, and sound. Researchers from Japan and Canada explore ...

“If you have to wait until kids can decode everything before they can read a simple story, you’re going to have to wait years, which is silly.” Why high-frequency words should be woven into ...

They’d been shocked to discover their students couldn’t decipher simple words like pipe. The fifth-graders had always scored low on reading tests, but this was the first time they’d taken ...

The Simple View of Reading is a theory developed by researchers in the 1980s, which proposed that reading comprehension is the product of spoken language ability and word decoding ability.

Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to make and read simple words. Then they learn how letters combine to make new sounds (such as SH ...

A simple example is the word “shot.” Very young children can “read” the word, but it means something very different on a basketball court, in a doctor’s office, or when the repairman ...

Let’s do the math: I’m a pretty good reader, I think I read in the neighborhood of 300 words per minute ... The solution I devised for myself is a simple one: It’s 25 pages a day.