The Science of Reading (SoR) is the research behind the methods that best help children learn how to read and decode words.
It has been around for a while…According to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the science of reading is informed by the simple view of reading proposed by psychologists Philip Gough and William Tunmer in 1986. The theory established that one must be able to both decode text and comprehend text in order to read. Psychologist Hollis Scarborough extended this idea by creating the reading rope, which unpacks the two strands even further and shows how they intertwine over time—illustrating that skilled reading requires increasingly automatic word recognition and increasingly strategic language comprehension.
I started thinking…”What can I do to help teachers bring the Science of Reading EASILY to their classroom?”
First, I made the Science of Reading FREE Guide…a simple resource for teachers to see the basics of SoR and get them started.
I knew some teachers needed MORE! I kept adding and adding more pages to the guide and it turned into the Science of Reading Complete Guide! Along with that, a self-paced course…Science of Reading Complete Course! What??!!
This Science of Reading Course will take you on a step-by-step along the Science of Reading journey. The self-paced modules will give background knowledge of SoR, explain the key components of instruction, give real-world classroom examples, share organization tips, provide printable PDFs, and much more!
If this sounds like something that would help you with your Science of Reading journey, head HERE!
As part of the course you will also receive the Science of Reading COMPLETE Guide.
Each video in the course will correspond to an immediate PDF download!
You can also download the complete guide all at once! The guide is perfect for teachers just starting on this journey, teachers who want clear explanations of SoR, or educators that want to spread the word about SoR!
If you are not positive about where to start, download this FREE guide first.
I made a free guide for teachers and parents to make it easy to incorporate the Science of Reading with their students. The research behind the Science of Reading is so intriguing and I wanted to share how I incorporate it daily into my instruction.
I wanted to make it SIMPLE for teachers to make this shift to teaching phonemic and decoding skills explicitly.
