
The Scientific Principles of Reading and Writing Instruction
Bridging the Divide Between Educational Practice and Research
Offering a neutral analysis of educational research, author Nathaniel Hansford provides a crash course on the science behind reading and writing instruction. This book empowers teachers to confidently make evidence-informed instructional decisions.
Evidence-based strategies for reading and writing instruction
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
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