The science of reading movement has focused on improving phonics instruction for children in the early grades, but it has largely overlooked students at higher grade levels.| nataliewexler.substack.com
The key factor isn't "skills and strategies"--it's knowledge.| nataliewexler.substack.com
Education Week tracks which states mandate that schools use evidence-based methods to teach young students how to read.| Education Week
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an expose of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now rec...| features.apmreports.org