abstract = "We present a meta-analysis to test the validity of the Simple View of Reading Gough & Tunmer (Remedial and Special Education, 7:6-10, 1986) for beginner readers of English and other, more transparent, orthographies. The body of research defining the science of reading (SoR) has established the “key ingredient” skills and the levels of development needed to learn to read. The key ingredients are eloquently described in the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990) and outlined in the Reading Rope (Scarborough, 2001). The Simple View of Reading (SVR) was proposed by researchers Gough and Tunmer in 1986. It was developed to reconcile “The Reading Wars” argument of the 1980s, between advocates of bottom up processing (decoding) and those who supported top down processing (language comprehension.) What did the Rose review say?. The framework for this view is captured, in part, by the Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough, 1990). At the core of the Simple View of Reading is the notion that while the act of reading is complex, proficient reading consists of two key components: word recognition and linguistic or language comprehension. cesses is the “simple view of reading” (henceforth, “Simple View”; Gough & Tunmer, 1986) which states that reading comprehension is the product of a general verbal component and a print-related component. That is, reading comprehension can be decomposed into a linguistic skill that can be assessed with listening com-.