The Scientific Principles of Reading and Writing Instruction: Bridging the Divide Between Educational Practice and Research (Evidence-based strategies for reading and writing instruction)
Language: English
Published by Solution Tree Press, 2026
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- Title
- The Scientific Principles of Reading and Writing Instruction: Bridging the Divide Between Educational Practice and Research (Evidence-based strategies for reading and writing instruction)
- Author
- Hansford, Nathaniel
- Publisher
- Solution Tree Press
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1958590975
- ISBN 13
- 9781958590973
Literacy instruction is a vast and ever-changing field. Distilling decades of research on reading and writing into an expedient and practical guide, educator and author Nathaniel Hansford provides an indispensable resource for educators who want to understand the science behind literacy and empower their own teaching. Gain a reliable and objective, evidence-based overview of what’s truly effective for improving student literacy outcomes.
K–12 teachers and administrators can use this book to:
- Learn how to interpret, parse, and better engage with educational research
- Review and examine comprehensive summaries of pivotal research on literacy instruction
- Understand the evolution of continuing historical debates on effective literacy instruction
- Examine meta-analyses to critically evaluate popular teaching methods
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the most common literacy teaching methods
Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Understanding Educational Research
Chapter 1: How to Understand the Types of Educational Research
Chapter 2: How to Read and Interpret Educational Research
Chapter 3: The Scientific Principles of Teaching
Part 2: Exploring Research on Reading Instruction
Chapter 4: Phonemic Awareness
Chapter 5: Advanced Phonemic Awareness Instruction
Chapter 6: The Reading Wars
Chapter 7: Phonics Scope and Sequence
Chapter 8: Morphology
Chapter 9: Fluency
Chapter 10: Comprehension
Chapter 11: Reading Comprehension and the Dose Effect
Chapter 12: Secondary Meta-Analyses on Reading Comprehension
Part 3: Exploring Research on Writing Instruction
Chapter 13: The Reading-Writing Connection
Chapter 14: Handwriting
Chapter 15: Spelling
Chapter 16: Writing
Part 4: Examining the Nuances of Literacy Instruction Debates
Chapter 17: Linguistic Phonics
Chapter 18: Decodable Texts
Chapter 19: Sight Words
Chapter 20: Sound Walls
Chapter 21: Embedded Mnemonics
Chapter 22: Multisensory Phonics Instruction
Part 5: Reviewing Practical Recommendations for the Classroom
Chapter 23: Secondary Meta-Analysis on Literacy Instruction Research
Chapter 24: Support for Striving Readers and Writers
Epilogue: Putting It All Together
Glossary
References and Resources
Index
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