Laskay-Horvath and colleagues (2025) investigated how different domains of working memory impacted on reading performance and how this association changed with age and reading expertise. The following provides an overview of their research. Background: Research: Results: Discussion: Implications for reading … Continued
Kim (2026) argues that when we understand the connections between reading and writing it has profound implications on how we assess, teach and support students. This post provides an overview of Kim’s article in which she provides a synthesis of … Continued
Proficient readers can look at a sequence of letters and automatically recognise them as being familiar and associate them with the correct pronunciation of a word or a morpheme (prefix, suffix or stem). Words that can be instantly recognised are … Continued
This episode provides an overview of Cowan’s research regarding short-term memory capacity, finishing with a quick overview of the importance of chunking as a learning strategy, especially in relation to decoding longer words. ReferenceCowan, Nelson. (2001). The Magical Number 4 … Continued
An important component of reading comprehension is exposing children to a wide variety of texts and topics. Magazines are a useful resource in this regard, especially those designed for children as they tend to have an abundance of ‘high-interest’ content … Continued