Science of Reading Quiz

95% of students can learn to read when provided with high quality, evidence-aligned instruction.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Multidisciplinary research has confirmed this to be a fact. Yet many students today are not learning to read.

According to EAB’s 2020 “Leading for Literacy,” 60 percent of elementary teachers have never been trained in strategies for teaching the foundational reading skills—phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Learning to read is a natural process, much like learning to talk.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Decades of scientific research has revealed that reading doesn’t come naturally. The human brain isn’t wired to read.

-Emily Hanford, Hard Words

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Most teachers nationwide are being taught reading science in their teacher preparation programs.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Most teachers nationwide are NOT being taught reading science in their teacher preparation programs because many deans and faculty in colleges of education either don’t know the science or dismiss it.

Much of the science of reading comes from disciplines outside of schools of education (e.g., neuroscience, linguistics, cognitive psychology, etc.) Therefore, professors who teach in schools of education are often unfamiliar with the scientific evidence base.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

According to Scarborough's Reading Rope, what are the two main components of skilled reading?

• language structures and sight recognition

• word recognition and phonological awareness

• phonological awareness and language structures

• language comprehension and word recognition

Answer explanation

Scarborough's Rope captures the complexity of learning to read. Scarborough's Reading Rope is made up of lower and upper strands. When all these component parts intertwine it results in skilled and accurate, fluent reading with strong comprehension.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

Heggerty is a curriculum designed with activities to help a child isolate sounds, blend and segment sounds, and manipulate sounds in spoken words. Heggerty is most aligned to which of the following?

• phonological awareness

• phonemic awareness

Answer explanation

Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate the spoken parts of words and sentences (Fundations). In contrast, phonemic awareness is the ability to understand how sound functions in words.

Heggerty includes explicit instruction in the following 8 skills:

• Rhyming, initial phoneme isolation. blending, isolating final and medial phonemes (sounds), segmenting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, substituting phonemes

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CCSS.RF.1.2B

CCSS.RF.1.2C

CCSS.RF.1.2D

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A