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Tag: Science of Reading
Taking a Stand!
In 1974 the Lau v. Nichols Supreme Court decision stated: “There is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities,...
Indiana Proposes Reading Requirement
Indiana lawmakers are supporting a bill to require Science of Reading (SoR) curricula in all the state’s schools, following the example of neighboring Ohio,...
The Case for Acquired Phonics
Researchers in second language acquisition have hypothesized that there are two very different ways of gaining knowledge of language: acquisition and learning. Learning results...
Literacy Education in 2023
If you were tasked to pick one word to guide your work as a literacy changemaker in the new year, what would it be?...
Multiliteracies and Multilingual Learners
Equipped with Miami Linguistic Readers, Camino de la Escuela, and my own ingenuity, my young multilingual learners and I dived into what we believed...
The Science of the Bilingual Reading Brain
“We are plural. The I is an illusion:...
A Road to Reading
We have learned the past 20 years, through cognitive science research, that over 90% of students can learn to read at grade level by...
Connecticut to Require Science of Reading
Connecticut has become the latest state to pass legislation requiring that reading instruction be based on the science of reading. According to the state’s...
The Science of Reading in Dual Language
“Literacy has two beginnings: one, in the world, the...
