Category: Science of Reading
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How to Fight Objections to the Science of Reading
Meet and fight objections to evidence-based reading instruction without any shock value. Practice how to fight objections with calm professionalism.
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Louisiana Out Front in the Post-COVID National Report Card
The National Report Card shows that post-COVID Louisiana improved their reading scores during the pandemic, compared to most states who lost percentage points.
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See Proven Results in Reading Instruction
You might not think of Mississippi as a leader in reading instruction. But in the last 10 years, they have emerged as champions of the science of reading.
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Do You Want Your State to Win the Reading Wars?
32 states have already passed laws to mandate the science of reading in elementary schools, otherwise known as “evidence-based” pedagogy. How does your state rank?
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Launching Knowledge-Building in the Classroom
What is knowledge-building? Only the most important part of your lesson plans, yet it’s the most overlooked. Learn how to implement it in your lesson plans.
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Tested Method to Improve Reading Comprehension Without Teaching It
Knowledge building is a key component in the Science of Reading. It underlies all the reading comprehension progress we want for our students.
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Soaring Way Beyond Intermittent Phonics Teaching
Science of Reading is far more than a push for phonics. It embraces an entire range of language development–and teaching of previously marginalized subject areas.
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Actually Build a Reading Highway in Students’ Brains
Systematic phonics instruction is an important part of the Science of Reading, but it’s only one part. It’s not OK to teach phonics sporadically.
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Surging Again: The Reading Wars, Part 2
In response to the whole language movement, educators developed a pedagogy…
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Surging Again: The Reading Wars, Part 1
In November, 1997 The Atlantic published an article called “The Reading Wars” highlighting the educational turned political dispute over how best to teach children to read. The war had been going on about eight years at the point of this article. They point out that “war” as a descriptive in…
