A Year in Reading Instruction: 7 Developments You Need to Know
States have passed—or begun enacting—laws requiring evidence-based teaching for early learners. Hundreds of thousands of teachers have gone through new training. A popular curriculum program was re-released with changes designed to bring it more in line with reading research, to mixed reviews.
These shifts all stem from the movement around the “science of reading”—an effort to align practice with methods that research shows are most effective for students.
WHAT IS THE ‘SCIENCE OF READING’?
In a science of reading framework, teachers start by teaching beginning readers the foundations of language in a structured progression—like how individual letters represent sounds and how those sounds combine to make words. …