The authors report a systematic meta-analytic review of the relationships among 3 of the
most widely studied measures of children's phonological skills (phonemic awareness, rime …

In this critique of current reading research and practice, the author contends that the extreme
ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence has confined reading science to an …

Alphabetic orthographies differ in the transparency of their letter-sound mappings, with
English orthography being less transparent than other alphabetic scripts. The outlier status …

This study aimed to investigate the interplay between mathematical word problem skills and
reading comprehension. The participants were 225 children aged 9–10 (Grade 4). The …

The science of reading has made genuine progress in understanding reading and the
teaching of reading, but is the science of reading just the science of reading English …

Most current theories of reading and dyslexia derive from a relatively narrow empirical base:
research on English and a handful of other European alphabets. Furthermore, the two …

Very few studies have directly compared reading acquisition across different orthographies.
The authors examined the concurrent and longitudinal predictors of word decoding and …

In this study, the relationship between latent constructs of phonological awareness (PA) and
rapid automatized naming (RAN) was investigated and related to later measures of reading …

We examined the longitudinal predictors of nonword decoding, reading fluency, and spelling
in three languages that vary in orthographic depth: Finnish, Greek, and English. Eighty-two …

Although the transparency of a writing system is hypothesized to systematically influence the
cognitive skills associated with reading development, results of cross-language …