Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Phonological awareness and knowledge about letters are both important for learning to read
and spell, but less is known about the development of letter knowledge than about the …

Reading fluency is commonly defined as reading accurately at a quick rate with appropriate
prosody—a simple sounding definition. In fact, this definition hides complex processes and …

In learning to read, what is it that one learns? Reading educators have stressed the goal of
learning to read in variations around meaning; eg learning to construct meaning, to get …

Grounded in a strong evidence base, this indispensable practitioner guide and text has
given thousands of teachers tools to support the literacy growth of beginning and struggling …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on the word recognition literature.
Word recognition research is central to notions regarding different levels/codes of analysis in …

We introduce WikiPron, an open-source command-line tool for extracting pronunciation data
from Wiktionary, a collaborative multilingual online dictionary. We first describe the design …

This book systematically examines how learning to read occurs in diverse languages, and in
so doing, explores how literacy is learned in a second language by learners who have …

Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy
acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners …

El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el efecto que la intervención conciencia fonológica y
velocidad de denominación tiene sobre el aprendizaje de la escritura. Los participantes …