Parts, Wholes and Context in reading: a triple dissociation
Elegant research study which found that the proportion of the three components of fluent reading are 62% phonic decoding, 16% whole (high frequency) word recognition, and 22% contextual clues. Each reading process always contributes the same number of words per minute, regardless of whether the other processes are operating.
Author(s):
Pelli, D.G. and Tilman, K.A.
References
Pelli, D.G. and Tilman, K.A. 2007. Parts, Wholes and Context in reading: a triple dissociation. PloS ONE, Issue 8, e680. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000680, pp. 1-8