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"Scientifically based reading instruction was first defined in the reading Excellence Act of 1998 as "the application of rigorous, systematic, and objective procedures to obtain valid knowledge relevant to reading development, reading instruction, and reading difficulties."
(Teaching Reading Sourcebook, 3rd ed., p. 6)
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Click here for a Glossary of Terms
Click here for a Glossary of Terms
Peer-reviewed:
articles that have gone through a rigorous review process prior to being published
Consensus:
general agreement; majority opinion
Print Concepts:
Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
Text Complexity:
The inherit difficulty of reading and comprehending a text combined with reader and task variables.
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Click Here for Online Resources(Everything shown is directly linked to the actual site.)
Science of Reading At-a-Glance:
Those teachers who reflect on their instruction, use scientific thinking every day, they "inquire into their own practice and...examine their own classrooms to find out what works best for them and their students." (Stanovich and Stanovich, 2003)
"Research--when it is based on sound scientific observation -- provides reliable information about what works and why and how it works." (Reyna, 2004)
Science of Reading Approach:
Science of Reading Approach:
Ask yourself these 3 questions when trying to determine if what you are reading is Effective Research?
Has the research been published in a peer-reviewed journal?
Articles published in peer-reviewed journals have gone through a diligent review process. It exposes ideas and experimentation to extensive examination and criticism from experts in the same field.
Have the research results been replicated by other scientists?
In order for something to be considered 'scientifically based' it must be reproducible by other scientists when they follow the exact same processes.
Is there a consensus that the research findings are supported by other studies?
Data is not evaluated from a one and done approach. Scientists conduct many studies to evaluate data and only after sufficient evidence has been uncovered will a consensus be reached.
(Teaching Reading Sourcebook, 3rd ed., p. 6)
In this 7 minute video you will have a brief overview of the Science of Reading and the different bodies of research that contribute to it.
In this 10:29 video Melissa Hostetter, a 7th grade language arts teacher in Illinois, will address how we currently teach reading as if it is a skill to 'absorb' rather than a skill to be 'taught'.
SCIENCE_OF_READING.pdf
Reading Research that is Scientifically-based* Must Include These Components
Reading Research that is Scientifically-based* Must Include These Components
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