Structured Literacy Professional Resources
Mineola UFSD
This interpretation of the reading rope incoroprates Gough & Tunmer's (1986) Simple View of Reading.
Graphic from https://www.reallygreatreading.com/content/scarboroughs-reading-rope
Structured literacy..
-emphasizes highly explicit and systematic teaching of all important components of literacy.
- is evidence-based & systematic.
- weaves together the key skills of reading outlined on the rope.
- acknowledges that reading and writing are not natural processes and thus require strategic and research based instruction.
- acknowledges that reading/writing is based on language and communication and need to be explicitly connected as so.
"(1)Reading difficulties have a number of causes, not all of which fall under decoding and/or listening comprehension as posited in the simple view; (2) rather than influencing reading solely independently, as conceived in the simple view, decoding and listening comprehension (or in terms more commonly used in reference to the simple view today, word recognition and language comprehension) overlap in important ways; and (3) there are many contributors to reading not named in the simple view, such as active, self-regulatory processes, that play a substantial role in reading..." (2021)
Links to Mineola's Literacy Curricula Resources
Mineola Literacy Assessments
Terms & definitions about literacy and the Science of Reading from "Pedagogy Non Grata" a group of educators and researchers dedicated to increasing equity in schools by making education research more accessible to teachers.