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.
