Connecting the Science of Reading to the Science of Learning

About this episode

This episode explores the connection between the science of reading and cognitive science, emphasizing the importance of integrating reading and writing with content-area instruction.

The “science of reading” often gets reduced to “phonics,” but there’s a lot of science that relates to reading comprehension as well. If we look at typical comprehension instruction through the lens of cognitive science, it becomes clear that we’ve unintentionally made reading and writing much harder than they need to be by separating them from each other and from content-area instruction. But cognitive science also tells us that a content-rich curriculum combined with explicit, m...

Topics covered

• science of reading
• reading comprehension
• cognitive science
• content-rich curriculum
• reading instruction

Keywords

• phonics
• reading
• comprehension
• cognitive science
• curriculum

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Organizations: Voyager Sopris Learning

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