Science of Reading Implementation Guide
Science of Reading Implementation Guide
Practice Snapshot: Provide Explicit Guidance on Evidence-Based Reading Instruction
Practice Snapshot: Provide Explicit Guidance on Evidence-Based Reading Instruction
About the Toolkit
Providing principals and teachers knowledge of the science of reading is critical but not enough. Even the best professional development can fail to translate to classroom practice without ongoing support and pragmatic guidance. In a survey of 20,000 teachers, nearly all of them expressed their belief that ongoing instructional support is very helpful as they work to improve practice, but just one fifth of them believe they actually get that kind of support.
Districts need to create clear and consistent structures that will ensure teachers know how to translate this knowledge into practice and that will support them in doing so. Explicit implementation guidance and frequent feedback can help teachers and principals make sure their students benefit from scientifically-informed reading instruction.
This toolkit provides guidelines, tools, and strategies for supporting teachers as they align their instruction to brain-based reading research.
Download the toolkit to help:
- Ensure teachers are given fundamental information related to teaching the foundational skills by clearly defining the skills and supporting their practice in the classroom.
- Provide teachers with the necessary information to create classroom sound walls and promote greater focus on phonemic awareness and phoneme-grapheme correspondence.
