In 2001, Dr. Hollis Scarborough designed “Scarborough’s Reading Rope'' to illustrate the skills of word recognition and processes of language comprehension as “strands” essential for achieving reading comprehension. Scarborough’s Reading Rope is widely depicted and referenced in reading research literature and visually breaks down the two critical components that lead to skilled reading (language comprehension [...]

Recently, there has been a great deal of buzz and confusion about the “Science of Reading'' and related terms, such as Structured Literacy and reading instruction that is explicit, systematic, sequential, cumulative, and diagnostic. When terms are misused or misunderstood, whether intentionally or not, our students may be “instructional casualties,” as they may continue to [...]