Everything About ___
Live briefing

Everything about Science of reading

Study of reading and its acquisition

The science of reading (SoR) is the discipline that studies the objective investigation and accumulation of reliable evidence about how humans learn to read and how reading should be taught. It draws on many fields, including cognitive science, developmental psychology, education, educational psychology, special education, and more. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Science of readingA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Expanding the science of reading: Contributions from educational psychologyInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Moby DickThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The Science of Reading Comprehension InstructionCited 141 times
  5. Go sideways: PhonicsA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Synthetic phonicsA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Foundational skills instruction in the United States
  2. Simple view of reading
  3. Scarborough's Reading Rope
  4. Active view of reading model
  5. Automaticity
  6. How the brain reads
  7. Eye movement and silent reading rate
  8. Dual-route hypothesis to reading aloud
  9. The production effect (reading out loud)
  10. Multisensory learning
  11. Explicit instruction vs. implicit instruction
  12. Evidence-based reading instruction

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics