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This report is an update to the original Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science published by the American Federation of Teachers more than 20 years ago and emerges from a collaboration between the AFT and the Center for Development and Learning.
Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and Be Able to Do. This 2020 update to the 1999 foundational report reviews the reading research and describes the knowledge base that is essential for teacher candidates and practicing teachers to master if they are to be successful in teaching all children to read ...
- Reading Psychology and Development
- Language Structure
- Endnotes
Learning to read is not natural or easy for most children. Unlike spoken language, which is learned with almost any kind of contextual exposure, reading is an acquired skill. Although surrounding children with books will support reading development, and a “literature-rich environment” is highly desirable, it is not sufficient for learning to read. ...
Expert teaching of reading requires knowledge of language structure at all levels.16Without such knowledge, teachers are not able to respond insightfully to student errors, choose examples for concepts, explain and contrast words and their parts, or judge what focus is needed in a lesson. The table below provides examples of key concepts of languag...
1. R. H. Good, D. C. Simmons, and E. Kame’enui, “The Importance and Decision-Making Utility of a Continuum of Fluency-Based Indicators of Foundational Reading Skills for Third-Grade High-Stakes Outcomes,” Scientific Studies of Reading 5 (2001): 257–288; and National Assessment of Educational Progress, “Nation’s Report Card: How Did U.S. Students Pe...
Specifically, teachers must understand the basic psychological processes in reading, how children develop reading skill, how good readers differ from poor readers, how the English language is structured in spoken and written form, and the validated princi-ples of effective reading instruction.
of Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science, which the AFT published, in 1999. In it, she explained how children learn to read, the essential components of reading instruction, what causes reading difficul-ties and how to prevent or reduce them. In this new edition, she adds depth to the science and provides clarity on the
currently impacting how reading is taught need to improve—dra-matically and rapidly. Teaching reading is rocket science. But it is also established science, with clear, specific, practical instruc-tional strategies that all teachers should be taught and supported in using.
Teaching Reading is Rocket Science 2020: What Expert Teachers of Reading Should Know and be Able to Do. Louisa Cook Moats. American Federation of Teachers, 2020 - Reading (Elementary) -...
