Any discussion of children's emergent writing must include an appraisal of the legacy in
research and practice of Read's (1971, 1975) work with invented spelling. It has been 30 …

Learning and developing as a reader are more complicated in a language the reader is
simultaneously learning to speak and understand. This challenge is faced by millions of …

It was a brief encounter but such a gracious and kind invitation from Lois Bridges, the superb
editor at Heinemann, that set this book in motion. I had been working for two years on the …

In this chapter, I attempt to provide a theoretical cognitive description of the connection
between phonological awareness and reading development across languages. The …

This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day,
charting the various changes that have taken place and the impact these have had on the …

Substantial research has been undertaken to understand the relationship between spelling
and sound, but we know little about the relationship between spelling and meaning in …

I examine the central ideas of the Lexical Quality Hypothesis (LQH), reviewing the early
studies that motivated them, and discussing more recent research that further supports and …

Arguments about how to teach initial reading are once more in the news. Proponents of
“synthetic phonics” argue that there is only one effective way to teach a child to read. In this …

Science of reading is a term that has been used variously, but its use within research, policy,
and the press has tended to share one important commonality: an intensive focus on …

Recent cross-language studies have suggested that the rate of reading acquisition differs in
different alphabetic orthographies. These cross-language differences are usually interpreted …