• Code and comprehension in written language : Considering limitations to the simple view of reading 

      Uppstad, Per Henning; Solheim, Oddny Judith (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The Simple View of Reading (SVR) was introduced by Gough and Tunmer in 1986 as a model to predict reading comprehension by means of two factors: decoding and linguistic comprehension. Over time, the SVR has acquired the ...
    • Minding metaphors : Rethinking the ecology of written language 

      Skaftun, Atle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The field of reading and literacy studies has undergone large changes in the past three decades. A branch referred to as New Literacy Studies has established itself alongside the traditional school of psychological reading ...
    • The ABC of reading : perspectives on the alphabetic principle 

      Uppstad, Per Henning; Tønnessen, Finn Egil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      An alphabetic writing system is a system in which words consist of individual letters that corre-spond to spoken-language units at a similar level of analysis. The systematic relationships between units of these two systems ...
    • Understanding reading development : a phenomenological perspective 

      Skaftun, Atle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The starting point of this article is a challenge presented to the research community in recent reviews of reading research and practice (Alexander & Fox 2004, 2007; Fox & Alexander 2009). That challenge is twofold in that ...