New reading

Dyslexia and the new science of reading.

The first thing Kathryn Nicholas will tell you about her 11-year-old son Jason is that he's a bright, curious kid who can build elaborate machines out of Legos and remember the code names and payloads of bombers. "He has a phenomenal desire to see how things work," she says proudly. But reading, for Jason, was a train wreck. In first grade he was assigned to special-education classes with three...

Fermat’s Treatise on Quadrature : a New Reading

The Treatise on Quadrature of Fermat (c. 1659), besides containing the first known proof of the computation of the area under a higher parabola, ∫ x dx, or under a higher hyperbola, ∫ x dx— with the appropriate limits of integration in each case—, has a second part which was not understood by Fermat’s contemporaries. This second part of the Treatise is obscure and difficult to read and even the...

The varying relationship between New Zealand students’ attitude to reading and reading literacy achievement

Results from the 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) show that for New Zealand’s Grade 4 students, those with a more positive attitude to reading tended to have higher reading literacy achievement (Chamberlain, 2007; Mullis, Martin, Kennedy, & Foy, 2007). However, in their analysis of PIRLS data English-speaking countries, Gnaldi, Schagen, Twist, and Morrison (2005), s...

Reading and the Brain Toward a New Definition of a Balanced Approach to Reading

Standardized assessment of reading performance: the New International Reading Speed Texts IReST.

PURPOSE There is a need for standardized texts to assess reading performance, for multiple equivalent texts for repeated measurements, and for texts equated across languages for multi-language studies. Paragraphs are preferable to single sentences for accurate speed measurement. We developed such texts previously in 6 languages. The aim of our current study was to develop texts in more language...