Teaching Reading IS Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do
"Reading is the fundamental skill upon which all formal
education depends." A child who does not learn reading basics early
is unlikely to learn them at all... Low reading achievement is the
root cause of chronically low-performing schools...Thanks to new
scientific research-plus a long-awaited scientific and political
consensus around this research - the knowledge exists to teach all
but a handful of severely disabled children to read well. This
report discusses the current state of teacher preparation in
reading in relation to that research.
Teaching Reading NICHD.pdf
(Prepared by Louisa C. Moats, NICHD)