Science of Reading and Learning Science
Understanding how children learn changes everything. The Science of Reading and broader learning science give us a research-based picture of how the brain develops, how children acquire skills, why some students struggle, and what instructional approaches make the biggest difference. Explore our articles to dig into the evidence.
What Is the Science of Reading?
The Science of Reading is everywhere right now — in legislation, curriculum marketing, and heated staff meetings — and most people nodding along have only a vague sense of what it actually means. It is not a program or a political position; it is five decades of research from brain science, linguistics, and education all converging on the same findings about how children learn to read. Every article in this series has been drawing from that body of evidence — this is the foundation all of it is built on, and now you know its name.
Everything Is Connected: How Scarborough’s Reading Rope Ties It All Together
Scarborough's Reading Rope is the clearest map we have of what skilled reading actually requires — and what it shows is that reading difficulty is almost never one thing. It is usually several strands, each a little weaker than it needs to be, tugging at the others until the whole system strains. If you have been following this series from the beginning, you have already been learning the rope — this is what it looks like when it all comes together.