More about the Science of Reading

Last month, I focused on the conclusions of reading scientists about what it takes to teach reading effectively. However, there’s more to the science of reading than meets the eye. You might want to know more about the science of reading. The primary motivation for the decades-long “reading wars” was a difference of opinion about how children learn to read. No one doubts that learning oral language is a natural process. Thus, it was logical to assume that learning written language was similar. Somehow, this assumption, combined with an $8 billion dollar textbook industry, has reduced the literacy of at […]