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Recently, Philip Capin and his colleagues published a valuable study in Scientific Studies of Reading. This research combined data from 66 observational studies of reading. Capin and company found that 23% of reading instruction was devoted...
Blast from the Past: This entry first appeared on March 13, 2021, and was republished on February 22, 2025. The reason for reissuing this now is because of recent exchanges I have observed on discussion boards. As far as I can tell, there is not much in the way of new research evidence on the teaching of syllabication – meaning that I have not changed my conclusions expressed in this blog. Nevertheless, I suspect that the newly energized interest in the role that morphology plays in different aspects of reading development (Colenbrander, et al., 2024) may increase interest in making cert...
Teacher question: With all the talk about the science of reading (phonics, phonemic awareness, knowledge building, etc.), I’m not hearing anything about print awareness. Should we still teach that and, if s...
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