Dedicated teachers feel urgency to get reading instruction right, but educators are busy and need simple, research-based guidance. These concise resources help teachers learn the basics of the research on the science of reading and turn them into simple, actionable steps to boost standard curricula.
Overview: Bringing the Science of Reading Into the Classroom—in this publication in the Opportunity Culture Connect series, educators get a one-page reminder of the critical elements of reading research.
The Science of Reading: Trainings and Action Guides
Understanding the Simple View of Reading
Start here: This introduction and study guide—available with and without speaker notes—provide a primer on the simple view of reading.
The Science of Reading—Introduction: Understanding the Simple View of Reading—This slide deck details the simple view of reading equation—Decoding X Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension—and distinguishes misleading conventional wisdom from facts based on research about teaching methods that boost students’ reading comprehension.
The Science of Reading—Study & Action Guide: Improving Your Multi-Classroom Leadership Team’s Instruction—This slide deck helps multi-classroom leaders, their teaching teams, and other teachers improve reading instruction and student learning growth fast.
Reading Comprehension Training
Follow the introductory materials with this three-part training, all available with and without speaker notes, on reading comprehension, a key element of reading instruction once students have mastered the component skills of the simple view of reading.
Part 1: Reading Comprehension Overview—This slide deck defines the elements of reading comprehension and why each matters, and identifies ways that teachers in all content areas can develop students’ comprehension skills.
Part 2: Explicit Comprehension Instruction—This slide deck focuses on a critical, research-based approach to supporting students’ textual meaning-making.
Part 3: MCL/Team Leader Study and Action Guide—This slide deck identifies next steps for systematically improving your team’s explicit comprehension instruction together.
Future slide decks will address additional research for further enhancing students’ reading.
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