Science of Reading

Podcasts

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Featured Book

Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers, 3rd ed.

by Louisa C. Moats, Ed. D.

For two decades, Speech to Print has been a bestselling, widely adopted textbook on explicit, high-quality literacy instruction. Now the anticipated third edition is here, fully updated with ten years of new research, a complete package of supporting materials, and expanded guidance on the how of assessment and instruction in today’s classrooms.

"Teaching Reading is Rocket Science, What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do" by Dr. Louisa Moats

• Article: https://www.aft.org/ae/summer2020/moats  

All students have the right to read! Therefore, the right to have access to a highly trained, knowledgeable teacher.
On a scale of 1-10, how much does the application of science matter to you in other fields? Medicine, architecture, aviation? 

Why would we expect any less when it comes to reading instruction? 

• Right to Read Project 
• @right2readproj

Moral responsibility:

• Society 
• Mental health 

Having a common vocabulary is important for all educators.

Reading Researchers

The science of reading is derived from researchers from multiple fields: cognitive psychology, communication sciences, developmental psychology, education, implementation science, linguistics, neuroscience, and school psychology.

“It is simply not true that there are hundreds of ways to learn to read…when it comes to reading, we all have roughly the same brain that imposes the same constraints and the same learning sequence.” (Dehaene 2009, p.218)

Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that is characterized by the provision of systematic, explicit instruction that integrates (1) listening, (2) speaking, (3) reading, and (4) writing. A structured literacy approach emphasizes the structure of language across the speech sound system (phonology), the writing system (orthography), the structure of sentences (syntax), the meaningful parts of words (morphology), the relationships among words (semantics), and the organization of spoken and written discourse. (IDA/CERI, 2018c, March)

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