What Teachers Should Know About the Science of Reading

Why do so many students struggle with reading? In a recent radio documentary for APM Reports, Emily Hanford says that the science on how to teach reading is clear, and yet it’s not being used in elementary classrooms today. In this Facebook Live conversation, we discuss what the reading research says, why there’s still debate about how to teach early reading, and what teachers may or may not be learning in their training.

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Hard Words: Why Aren't Kids Being Taught to Read? https://www.apmreports.org/story/2018...

Why Doesn't Every Teacher Know the Research on Reading Instruction? https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/20...

We Have a National Reading Crisis https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/20...

Teachers Criticize Their Colleges of Ed. for Not Preparing Them to Teach Reading http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teache...