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Our knowledge of what works in reading instruction is based on decades of rigorous, scientifically based research in the fields of education, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. This research digest provides an overview of the science of reading, followed by a brief summary of researchbased frameworks that explain the reading process, and concludes with a discussion of reading research in adult education.  \nThe Evolution of the Science of Reading  \nThe science of reading is best understood in the context of the Reading Wars, a contentious historic debate about the most effective methods for teaching children to read. This debate centered on two opposing schools of thought: phonics-based instruction and whole language instruction. Instruction based on phonics focuses on the relationships between letters and sounds, teaching readers to sound out words and recognize common letter combinations (Mesmer & Griffith, 2005) . This instructional approach is typically explicit and sequential, designed to provide children with the necessary tools to “crack the alphabetic code” and become skilled, independent readers (Castleset al., 2018; Ehri, 2020) . Conversely, the whole language movement posited that children learn to read through exposure to authentic texts and characterized reading as a “psycholinguistic guessing game”(Goodman, 1967), in which readers must use contextual cues to predict or recognize words. Whole language teaching methods focus on the meaning of connected text, eschew a systematic  \napproach to teaching phonics, and may limit explicit phonics instruction to short lessons delivered in response to student errors (Dahl & Scharer, 2000; Rayner et al., 2001; Stahl et al., 1994) .  \nThe pendulum has swung back and forth between phonics-based instruction and whole language instruction in the United States (Chall, 1967; Hempenstall, 1997) . Inan effort to “end” the Reading Wars, an instructional philosophy known as balanced literacy emerged as a middle ground between these two approaches in the 1990s (Pressley, 1998; Wharton-McDonald et al., 1997) . Balanced literacy ostensibly incorporates elements of skills-based and meaning-based methods for teaching children to read (Frey et al., 2005) . Critics contend that balanced literacy instruction includes scientifically unsupported practices, such as using picture clues to guess unknown words, and avoids systematic phonics instruction to the detriment of struggling readers (Moats, 2007; Winter, 2022) .  \nIn the late 1990s, a federal initiative to use research evidence to inform reading instruction took hold, when Congress convened the National Reading Panel with a mandate to evaluate all available reading research and identify the most effective evidence-based methods of teaching reading. This panel of nationally recognized reading experts included scientists, teachers, administrators, and teacher educators selected by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education (Shanahan, 2005) . The National Reading Panel’s landmark report, based on a review of hundreds of research studies, identified five key components of effective reading instruction: phonemic awareness,  \nCorrespondence: [atalwar@air.org](atalwar@air.org) 43  \nwhich refers to the ability to identify and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words; phonics, which, as discussed previously, refers to teaching the relationships between letters or letter combinations and their sounds; vocabulary, which refers to the ability to underst","cbCaisgUuNtNr90k","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisgUuNtNr90k","pdf",93725,"English","# The Science of Reading and Where It Stands in Adult Education\n## The Evolution of the Science of Reading\n## Research-Based Frameworks for Reading","[{\"question\":\"What does the science of reading refer to in this document?\",\"answer\":\"It refers to a large body of research on how people learn to read and which methods most effectively teach reading, grounded in education, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience.\"},{\"question\":\"How are phonics-based instruction and whole language instruction contrasted?\",\"answer\":\"Phonics-based instruction emphasizes explicit letter-sound relationships so readers can sound out words, while whole language instruction emphasizes exposure to authentic text and using context to predict or recognize words.\"},{\"question\":\"What key components of effective reading instruction are identified by the National Reading Panel?\",\"answer\":\"The panel identifies phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension as key components of effective reading instruction.\"}]","The Science of Reading and Where It Stands in Adult Education | PDF",1792066951]