The Joy of Reading and the Scandal of Child Illiteracy by Dr Marlynne Grant, March 31, 2026

 

Original article link

 

As usual, here are extracts and my comments:

My blog views in December 2024 and January 2025

 

                                  75% of total views in January is from the US.

For a better view, click on the two images on this page.

From October to November, there were no less than 2,000 views per day from China. This was surprising as the Chinese from Mainland China don’t have access to overseas blogs. Before that, I hardly had any views from China. This could be because of my several posts on Pinyin taught wrongly in China. You may read one of several of my posts here. LINK.

Since November 2024 I started tweeting incessantly in response to Tweets by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. 

The Dyslexia Debate – A Re-examination

 

 

Advocates for dyslexia persist in asserting that individuals with dyslexia face a literacy issue. How stupid does one have to be to believe this nonsense?

Those who benefit from this narrative often block me on social media.

 

Consider this for a moment:

How did David Chalk manage to read in just 11 days at the age of 62?

Why was he unable to read until then?

What led David Corcoran and Tom Cruise to leave school as functional illiterates?

How did they learn to read after their formal education ended?

Dr. Marlynne Grant and Reading Reform Foundation of UK.

 

Yesterday, 9.12.21, I read a tweet by Reading Reform Foundation of UK as follows:

@RRForg

The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) is challenging the Department for Education's promotion of Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) - the technical code knowledge and skills for word recognition of the Simple View of Reading. Dr Marlynne Grant responds: http://rrf.org.uk/2021/12/08/res