Science of reading
The body of research on how children learn to read, emphasising explicit phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
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- United States, All four UK nations (details may differ)
- Topic
- Teaching and learning
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Related terms
- Phonics All four UK nations (details may differ) United States International
- Teaching children to read by linking sounds (phonemes) with letters or groups of letters (graphemes).
- Simple view of reading United States All four UK nations (details may differ)
- A model stating that reading comprehension is the product of word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension.
- Structured literacy United States
- Explicit, systematic teaching of language structures such as phonology, morphology and syntax.
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