The Science of Reading- Translating research to classroom practice

Overview

Part of what we know is that learning to read is a complex neurological process that humans have taken 1000's of year to figure out.  Despite this, we expect children to achieve this in the first few years of school.

This three-day The Science of Reading- Translating research to classroom practice course at Edith Cowan College is designed to bridge the gap between research and practice and make explicit how evidence-based models of reading have determined the essential components required for the human brain to efficiently build a reading circuit and for a brain to learn to automatically recognise words.

Why this course is for you

The saying "When we know better, we do better" is often used to describe any practice that evolves in light of research.

The term 'Science of Reading' refers to the research that reading experts, over the last 50 years, have conducted on how we learn to read. At times, this body of work has remained unknown and inaccessible to classroom practitioners, but recent publications translating this research into practical approaches have led teachers to reflect on older methods of reading instruction that were based on tradition and observation, not evidence.  What teachers know and do has the most impact on student achievement, so this course is designed to show what to teach, the instructional sequence and the most effective strategies to teach reading, all grounded in current research.