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.
The Grammar We Actually Need: Why Syntax Matters — and How to Build It Without Drill and Kill
Traditional grammar instruction — the songs, the diagrams, the labeled worksheets — does not build reading comprehension, and the research has been saying so for decades. What does is exposure to complex language through wide reading and read-alouds, and purposeful work with real sentences from real texts. Syntax is the structure through which meaning moves, and a reader who cannot follow it will hit a wall that phonics and vocabulary cannot fix.