How We Read, Why So Many Can't, And What Can Be Done About It
Pictures that didn’t fit
Deleted from the manuscript or new additions. They look much nicer if you click on them to enlarge.
Chapter 2
The cover of a Hebrew translation of “Goodnight Moon” illustrates the inclusion of vowel diacritics in materials for beginning readers. Note that the cover illustration is a mirror image of the original.
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Eye fixation patterns in reading and skimming. Adapted from Rayner and Costelhano Scholarpedia article.
Chapter 6
p. 106: The two sides of the linguistic coin. Hearing–>phonology–>speaking.
Design of Morrison et al.’s enrollment cutoff study.
Chapter 7
Schematic of a simple feedforward network.
Chapter 8
Main results from Hulme et al. (2015) longitudinal familial risk study. Amazingly, oral language abilities assessed at 3 years of age accounted for some of the differences in their reading comprehension at age 8.
Chapter 10
Oh, another cross-national assessment in which the US comes out pretty much like in other such comparisons. I include only to emphasize that the PISA is not the only basis for concerns about US performance.
