![]() ![]() Why haven’t we seen the progress promised by this orientation toward SOR? Some in the SOR community suggest that phonics is not taught with sufficient rigor (as directly and systematically as it needs to be) in early education. But after several years of implementation, analyses of Reading First indicated that students’ reading outcomes had not substantially changed.Įven 20 years after the NRP Report, with nearly all reading instruction in the United States at least partially guided by the NRP’s findings, reading achievement has barely budged from where it was in 1992 for grades 4 and 8, the two grade levels regularly assessed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. For example, President Bush’s reading initiative, Reading First, made findings from the NRP Report a central part of its program. The NRP Report led to teachers, schools, curriculum developers, policy makers, publishers, and political leaders working to include all these elements in their reading curricula and programs. ![]() Reading instruction can be studied and guided by science, but the teaching of reading is also an art. ![]() These highly respected scientists and literacy scholars reviewed the scientific research on reading, determining theįoundational skills required for effective reading curriculum: phonemic awareness, comprehension, phonics or word decoding, vocabulary or word meaning, and reading fluency (both automatic word recognition and prosody). SOR has been around as long as scientists have studied reading development and instruction, but the National Reading Panel (NRP) Report in 2000 was a major milestone in the SOR movement. Embracing science, according to these advocates, leads to significant, substantive improvement in literacy achievement. Advocates of SOR suggest that the slow reading achievement gains shown within the United States over the past three decades result from reading instruction that’s not scientifically grounded. If you’re interested in reading instruction, you’ve probably heard about an approach called the ![]()
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