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.

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.

As Matt Davis notes in his analysis of the text, it's essentially correct when it says "the human mind does not read every letter by itself, but the word as a whole." It's true that people do not ...