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Oct 7, 2022 · Blog > Wit & Wisdom Blog > Science of Reading > Examining Scarborough’s Rope: Literacy Knowledge. Scarborough’s Reading Rope provides a model for understanding the components of skilled reading. This blog series examines each of the strands of the Language Comprehension half of the rope and how Wit & Wisdom ® strengthens these upper strands.
Feb 26, 2024 · In 2001, the model was published in the Handbook of Early Literacy Research (Neuman/Dickinson). Reading teachers immediately saw how useful it was, and it became a staple for educating new teachers and parents alike. Scarborough’s Reading Rope contains two main sections: Word Recognition and Language Comprehension.
Components of the Reading Rope: Literacy Knowledge. Literacy knowledge is another strand in Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope. It encompasses all of the ideas we know are true about language, books and the text within them. When children have knowledge of literacy concepts, it means that they have a foundation in all of the elements that make ...
Jun 29, 2023 · In the late 1990s, reading and literacy expert Dr. Hollis Scarborough used pipe cleaners to create a model of the intertwined skills that make up the process of learning to read. That model is the iconic Reading Rope, the visualization that helps us understand the essential strands of reading and how they work together.
Literacy knowledge. The Lower Strands. Phonological Awareness. Phonological A wareness is a skill set that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language – parts such as words, syllables, onsets, and rimes. Did you know that you can improve your students’ ability to read unfamiliar words without showing them a single printed letter?
The Reading Rope is a visual metaphor for what we understand about the acquisition of reading from start to finish. I created the image in 1992, based on a large body of important research studies carried out in the 1970s-80s on reading and reading disabilities.
Volume 7, Issue 2. April 2018. Hollis Scarborough—creator of the famous Reading Rope and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories—is a leading researcher of early language development and its connection to later literacy. Dr. Scarborough’s association with the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) goes back to 1994 when she served as ...
