Language & Literacy

Research & Evidence

35 posts

Reading research well, skepticism and openness, evidence in practice

• 2026What We Learned from Research in 2025Research Highlights
• 2025Literacy Is Not Just for ELA: The Power of Content-Rich Teacher TalkResearch Highlights
• 2025What We Learned from Research in 2024Research Highlights
• 2024Research Highlight 5: Learning In a New Language Takes EffortResearch Highlights
• 2024Reviewing Claims I’ve Made on LLMsAI, LLMs, and Language
• 2024Research Highlight 4: Structuring Classroom Learning for Student Success and AgencyResearch Highlights
• 2024How to Externalize Internal LanguageInnate vs. Developed
• 2024What We Learned from Education Research in 2023Research Highlights
• 2023Research Highlight 2: The Language Teachers Use Influences the Language Students LearnResearch Highlights
• 2023Research Highlight 1: The Importance of Automatization in Learning a New LanguageResearch Highlights
• 2023Accelerating the Inner Scaffold Across Modalities and LanguagesInnate vs. Developed
• 2023The Inner Scaffold for Language and LiteracyInnate vs. Developed
• 2023Language—like reading—may not be innateInnate vs. Developed
• 2023A Multicomponent Approach
• 2022What is the problem with “sight words”?
• 2022How you interpret “the science of reading” depends on how you think of “science”: Part IVThe Science of Reading
• 2022How you interpret “the science of reading” depends on how you think of “science”: Part IIIThe Science of Reading
• 2022How you interpret “the science of reading” depends on how you think of “science”: Part IIThe Science of Reading
• 2022How you interpret “the science of reading” depends on how you think of “science”: Part IThe Science of Reading
• 2022Learning and the Brain: Keeping that Goldilocks Balance
• 2022Are Interim Assessments a Waste of Time?
• 2022A Healthy Diet of Openness and Skepticism Towards Education Research
• 2022Learning to Read: An Unnatural ActNatural vs. Unnatural
• 2022Learning to Read is Natural (So claim the Goodmans)Natural vs. Unnatural
• 2022What is (un)natural about learning to read and write?Natural vs. Unnatural
• 2021The Sound and the Fury of Phonemes and Reading
• 2021The Science of Reading and Cancer
• 2021Universals of Language
• 2021Our Brains Were Not Born to Read…Right?Natural vs. Unnatural
• 2021I think I was wrong about Phonemic Awareness
• 2021Whole to Part to Whole
• 2020The Riches of ASHA
• 2020The Riches of Speech-Language Pathology
• 2020The Influence of Acoustics on LearningSchools as Ecosystems
• 2019Learning How Kids Learn to Read

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