This post is a reprint from TeachEffectively.com, a site that I used to produce. I originally published the post 28 March 2016. The blog stopped functioning in about 2016, but I still have access to the posts.

I think readers of Special Education Today will find this post valuable. I have updated this version of the post so that the links point to currently available versions of the pages to which they originally referred.

Professor Hempenstall has been a subscriber to SET since nearly its inception. Readers may be able to ask him questions and get his replies by adding comments to this post. Let’s see if we can smoke him out!

—JohnL

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Professor Kerry Hempenstall [with Jennifer Buckingham] wrote a literature review on teaching reading for Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies. It is an excellent resource, because it is true to the scientific evidence, but it is written in a way that is accessible to lay readers.

Parents, teachers, administrators, and interested others: You don’t have to put up with the statistics-ese and mumbo-jargon that we researchers often use when discussing scientific evidence. In Read About It: Scientific Evidence for Effective Teaching of Reading, Professor Hempenstall clearly explains the five fundamental features of reading competence and how to foster them in learners. Down load a copy of this excellent [FREE] PDF or follow this link [no longer functioning] to learn how to purchase a hard copy.

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If you’re interested in the popular topic referred to as the “science of reading,” this paper will provide you a no-nonsence, historical guide.