Science of Reading Teaching Resources

Are you looking to bring the Science of Reading curriculum into your classroom or are you on the hunt for worksheets, activities, games, and more that align with science of reading lessons and strategies?

This Teach Starter Science of Reading collection was created by ELA teachers with a direct, explicit, cognitive, cumulative, and multi-sensory approach to reading education. Each resource has been created by a highly-qualified teacher, undergone rigorous fact-checking and spell-checking by our teacher team, and been given a full review to ensure the resource is curriculum-aligned and adheres to the research.

What Is the Science of Reading?

Maybe you're new to teaching the Science of Reading curriculum? We're glad you found us!

We know teachers follow a myriad of pedagogies, so we've put together a quick guide to help get you started on the who, what, where, why, and how!

The term “Science of Reading” sounds like it could be the name of a particular reading program or set of content standards, but in fact, the Science of Reading really is just what the name implies — it’s a body of scientific research surrounding how children best learn to read. A single study is not enough to determine the best way to go about educating millions of students, so instead, the key is for literacy education to be based on a convergence of evidence from tens of thousands of studies.

Phonics Focus

Science of Reading experts base their approach to literacy education on phonics, stressing that students need to learn the basic components of reading in order to be successful. That includes

• Phonological awareness
• Reading fluency
• Spelling Patterns
• Syllabication

But what really sets the science of reading apart from other approaches to teaching reading to young learners is its foundation in phonics and the understanding that children begin to read written words not just by seeing them, but through sounding them out.

The science of reading is built on a premise that in order to understand how to read words, students must first understand the sounds letters make individually and when combined with others. Only once they have a grasp on those component sounds will they then be able to read whole words by decoding them from their component phonemes and breaking them into familiar syllable parts.

Once students have mastered the art of breaking words into readable parts, they shift from  the "learning to read" mode into the "reading to learn" mode. Once this shift happens, students become confident readers that are able to further comprehend and interpret texts with higher readability levels.

More Science of Reading

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• CVC words
• CVCC words
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