Reading Elephant
Helping children reach their reading potential.
Many researchers have compared whole language and phonics. One of the most striking experiments was done by Bruce McCandliss, a professor of Education at Stanford University. McCandliss is part of an …
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What are the best practices in teaching reading? Now we can peer inside the reading brain and see that all of us mortals must process a word phonologically before accessing meaning. Furthermore, …
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Expert readers decode and make meaning so effortlessly they may be fooled to believe reading is natural. Research in both education and neuroscience show unequivocally that reading is not natural, …
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EDWARD THE EMU BY SHEENA KNOWLES If you’re having a bad day, it might lift your spirits to think,” At least I’m not an emu.” These strange-looking creatures are flightless birds that reside in …
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