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‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’
reading Education teaching usa
4 days ago by andrewducker

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Children read more because they can
Children reading
7 days ago by andrewducker

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'The difficulty is the point': teaching students how to really read
reading education english
december 2017 by andrewducker

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Why you’re more likely to remember something if you read it to yourself out loud
reading memory sound
november 2017 by andrewducker

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SF doesn’t really make you stupid. It’s more that if you’re stupid enough to be biased against SF you will read SF stupidly.
scifi reading psychology
november 2017 by andrewducker

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Lord of the Rings: The Experience
lotr memory fantasy reading
april 2017 by andrewducker

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I now have regular reading for the bus home every evening.
links viaSwampers reading information
may 2016 by andrewducker

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Boys do better in reading than girls - if told that it's a game
gender reading children
may 2016 by andrewducker

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Dixyslea
reading brain viaElfy
march 2016 by andrewducker

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You hear a voice in your head when you're reading, right?
reading psychology experience
february 2016 by andrewducker

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Switching to ebooks causes a 25% increase in reading for boys
ebooks reading children
february 2016 by andrewducker

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Speed Reading Promises Are Too Good to Be True
speed reading
january 2016 by andrewducker

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So You Want To Read The Bible
bible religion reading
july 2015 by andrewducker

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A Reading List for New Lib Dems
libdem reading
may 2015 by andrewducker

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I read only non-white authors for 12 months. What I learned surprised me
reading race
february 2015 by andrewducker

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My child only rereads sci-fi and fantasy: how can I get him to read new books?
books reading viaJennieRigg scifi
august 2014 by andrewducker

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Reading Harry Potter makes children less bigoted
lgbt bigotry harrypotter children reading
july 2014 by andrewducker

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Peter And Jane: The Lost Episodes (now with mythical oddness)
weird reading
july 2014 by andrewducker

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Books, videos and other 'experiential products' provide same happiness boost as life experiences

Finally, proof that living in The Matrix will be awesome!

books reading experience life happiness
july 2014 by andrewducker

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Same genes drive mathematics and reading ability
genetics reading mathematics
july 2014 by andrewducker

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Seth McFarlane is matching the next $1,000,000 of donations to Reading Rainbow
reading kickstarter CrowdFunding viaSkreidle
june 2014 by andrewducker

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Movie Scripts Ranked by Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
movies reading language scripts
may 2014 by andrewducker

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Question For You: How Do You Decide Whether To Buy A Book? (For once, read the comments)
books publishing reading
april 2014 by andrewducker

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No home is complete without a reading net.
design reading books library
december 2013 by andrewducker

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Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
libraries books reading fiction imagination NeilGaiman
october 2013 by andrewducker

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Want To Read Others' Thoughts? Try Reading Literary Fiction
reading psychology emotions fiction
october 2013 by andrewducker

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I frequently highlight text while I'm reading it. I didn't realise it was common...
reading text comic
september 2013 by andrewducker

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Is reading bedtime stories to children on the wane?
reading children
september 2013 by andrewducker

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You won’t finish this article. (I did. But it wasn't easy.)
reading internet
june 2013 by andrewducker

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Reading is for the love, not just for predetermined info gathering
reading
april 2013 by andrewducker

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Interesting stuff on gender differences in reading/maths abilities across different societies
reading gender mathematics
march 2013 by andrewducker

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The Serif Readability Myth
reading font
january 2013 by andrewducker

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Most Citizens of the Star Wars Galaxy are Probably Totally Illiterate
reading literacy StarWars
october 2012 by andrewducker

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How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
reading books publishing usa
august 2012 by andrewducker

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Turns out that giving children good books to read makes them, well, read.
education books reading
june 2012 by andrewducker

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I'm Giving Up Reading for a Year.
reading satire internet blogging
may 2012 by andrewducker

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The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart
visualisation reading literature books
april 2012 by andrewducker

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On the legality of "Readability"

I use "ReadItLater" for much the same task on my phone, and very handy it is too.

reading copyright readability
april 2012 by andrewducker

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Ursula K LeGuin on the continuing life of the book.
technology ebooks reading books
march 2012 by andrewducker

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You've Probably Read Enough
reading doing motivation
december 2011 by andrewducker

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This illustrates nicely why I don't read the web without AdBlock, and preferably something to convert to all text
reading web advertising EpicFail
november 2011 by andrewducker

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Is reading on the loo bad for you?
reading toilet science
november 2011 by andrewducker

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Are You Reading Too Much?
reading einstein
october 2011 by andrewducker

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The Suck Fairy - when re-reading childhood favourites is a bad idea.
books reading
april 2011 by andrewducker

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Becoming a vampire without being bitten: Reading expands our self-concepts.
reading psychology brains community
april 2011 by andrewducker

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Absolutely fascinating article on the future of long-form journalism (i.e. 4000+ word articles)
journalism news reading
march 2011 by andrewducker

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One Genre to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them - why the BBC's focus on lit-fic puts people off reading.
books reading bbc fantasy horror literature
march 2011 by andrewducker

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Kindle better for books, iPad better for browsing short articles. Makes sense to me.
reading ereader kindle ipad
october 2010 by andrewducker

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Kindle better for books, iPad better for browsing short articles. Makes sense to me.
reading ereader kindle ipad
october 2010 by andrewducker

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Dogs help children learn to read
dogs children reading
october 2010 by andrewducker

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Why the fuss over a lack of YA for boys is nothing more than backlash
books feminism writing publishing literature reading women
september 2010 by andrewducker

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Amazon Kindle: Most Highlighted Books of All Time
books ebooks reading amazon
july 2010 by andrewducker

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Language skills lag a year behind in poorest children
poverty reading parenting
february 2010 by andrewducker

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Shelfari: Neil Gaiman's Bookshelves

It's not bad. Could be bigger

gaiman reading sf books library
september 2009 by andrewducker

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Beautiful Reading via Flex 4

Very nice idea - I'd like to see it taken a lot further. It really does make long chunks of text more readable.

flash text reading
september 2009 by andrewducker

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Compulsory Reading

On how making a joy into a task will kill it.

books comic reading
june 2008 by andrewducker

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How we read online.

So I can find it later

internet reading usability writing attention blogging
june 2008 by andrewducker

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What Books Will Survive?

Discussion of what books published in the last thirty years will still be read 150 years from now...

books reading history society
april 2008 by andrewducker

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How to get things done

An article from 1949 on how to use procrastination to your advantage

funny life management reading tips gtd procrastination productivity
november 2007 by andrewducker

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Hidden method of reading revealed

Results on how the eyes focus on different letters when you read.

eyes psychology reading science
september 2007 by andrewducker

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The Discworld Reading Order Guide

How handy!

Discworld Pratchett reading fantasy scifi filetype:jpg media:image
july 2007 by andrewducker

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Michael Chabon reclaims "entertainment" as a positive word

Originally an introduction to a collection of "Best Short Stories 2004", but remarkably well written with many good points made.

writing reading entertainment
june 2006 by andrewducker

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Read All About It

Article on brain scans that indicate diverse languages have certain brain structures in common where reading is involved. Plus other recent discoveries.

education neuroscience psychology reading science brain
may 2005 by andrewducker

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Sounds 'help pupils with reading'

A long term study shows that use of 'synthetic phonics' put 11-year-olds 3 years ahead of children not taught in that way

education reading BBC
february 2005 by andrewducker

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