The Stories
The Stories
Fun, plain-English stories about the research behind reading, where words come from, and how we make Lex The Saurus.
Interesting science and history updates for everyone.
Everybody quotes it. Nobody can source it.
“It takes a village to raise a child.” When reporters went looking for the source, the trail went cold, and what they found instead was better.
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A broth, a brother in a Brothel.
You find a broth, a brother in a ‘brothel’ before you realise nothing adds up.
So what is really happening?
Releasing 01 September 2026Hear first on Releasing01 October 2026
Your baby could hear a sound you can’t. Then they gave it up.
A timeline of the reading brain, in the order it is actually built. Reading turns out to arrive last, and to arrive as a guest.
Hear first on Releasing01 November 2026
Phonics is the first key. It is not the only lock.
Phonics does exactly what it claims, and the research is clear about that. The research is just as clear about where it stops.
Hear first on Releasing01 December 2026
We Are Not Alone
How cooperative breeding, and a village of voices, wires a child for language.
Hear first on Releasing01 January 2027
Puppet Books, the Yale Study
What happens when the story on the page can talk back.
Hear first on Releasing01 February 2027
The English Curriculum
Where morphology sits in what schools actually teach, and where it does not.
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