Terrific new article on the reading comprehension and strategy intervention for struggling readers. Strategy instruction alone is ineffective; rather; background knowledge is the active ingredient for reading comprehension journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.31…

'In addition to systemic and policy changes, we also need a shift in mindset. Embedded in too many schools’ practice and policy, to this day, is the idea that an intelligence-test score can somehow measure human potential. It does not. slate.com/human-interest…

PsyArXiv Preprints | Race/Ethnicity and the Identification of Reading Disabilities: Unexpectedness Impacts the Identification of Minoritized Students. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Publication of our new book updating the dyslexia debate is only a few months away. Drawing upon key scientific disciplines we examine & respond to arguments that challenge or support the scientific validity of dyslexia diagnoses and highlight the inequity of current approaches.

Using Strive- for- Five Conversations to Strengthen Language Comprehension in Preschool through Grade One. bit.ly/3Ocr3Hx

Don't miss Steve Dykstra's take on the 'science of reading' youtube.com/watch?v=V2ave2… good stuff!

Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

Thanks so much for sharing your story and bringing attention to flawed approaches to identifying dyslexia.

Super resource for those interested in reading.

Have you listened to Tiffany Hogan define Language Comprehension yet in Episode 167? 💙

Language Comprehension and Listening Comprehension are often used interchangeably. It's because they tap into the same ability!

This is an important paper for those involved in screening for dyslexia and other academic difficulties Schotz

What’s missing from states’ science of reading laws? Some crucial science. Matt Barnum with a nice brief piece on the problem. chalkbeat.org/2023/8/21/2384…

Adapting Curricula for Children With Language Comprehension Deficits | Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools pubs.asha.org/doi/abs/10.104…

Next post: Decoding 'The Simple View of Reading II.' Second of three. seidenbergreading.net/2023/05/29/dec… #scienceofreading

One of my favorite quotes.

It’s great that schools are focusing on dyslexia but there are other lesser-known literacy and language difficulties that often 'get missed’, explains world-leading expert Maggie Snowling in our latest Tes Q&A
tes.com/magazine/teach…

Wish I could take credit for this beautiful video, but that has to go to Edutopia! It’s my voice & my thoughts, but they did everything else.

A recent study of knowledge-building curriculum & reading comprehension has drawn criticism, some of it valid.

But it's far from the only evidence that building knowledge works better than the typical approach to comprehension.

More in my Forbes post:

forbes.com/sites/nataliew…

Much more to this article, please give it a read:

technologyreview.com/2023/04/19/107…