“The pillars tend to convey a sense of rigidity ... not just on ensuring that individual teachers understand the “science of reading,” however that’s defined, but also that they have ...

Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific outcome (e.g., heart disease, reading proficiency). For ...

The science behind reading Cognitive scientists ... The five parts are often referred to as the five components or pillars of reading. One Omaha teacher, who graduated from the University of ...

Although phonics, the ability to connect letters to sounds, has drawn the most attention, the science of reading focuses on four other pillars of literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, identifying ...