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The Reading Brain: Science, Research and Classroom Practice
IGC 709
Casey Rekowski
A graduate course for Massachusetts PreK-5 educators covering the decades-long body of cognitive science research that establishes how children learn to read.
The course uses the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough's Reading Rope as organising frameworks to work through the five components of reading, then connects that research directly to what happens in a classroom: how to plan explicit instruction, how to spot where a reader is breaking down, and how to evaluate the materials already on the shelf against the evidence.
Taught by a Massachusetts educator. Three graduate credits awarded through Gordon College, a DESE-approved provider.
- Explain the science of how children acquire reading
- Create explicit phonemic awareness and phonics lessons
- Apply culturally sustaining practices for multilingual learners
- Assess existing classroom literacy approaches against research evidence
- Construct structured literacy lessons incorporating all five components of reading using gradual release
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