Reading Pivot Theory

Why are reading scores still falling after schools adopted the Science of Reading? This white paper argues that reform has lost sight of one question: what can a child actually do when they meet a word they have not learned yet? It proposes that students learn how words sound and are spelled before they need to know what they mean, and that schools give someone clear responsibility for that skill.

What's inside

1. How schools in China taught the full American BJU Press curriculum to children who arrived with little English.
2. Reading Pivot Theory: how children keep learning new words once written vocabulary outgrows spoken vocabulary.
3. How the Octophonics system builds sound and spelling skills that students keep using after the course ends.
4. Why reform in the name of the Science of Reading is losing direction, and what schools can prepare in advance.

By Cindy Lien · 42 pages · PDF · Free