Specifications include, but are not limited to: These professional learning providers offer robust training to develop educators’ knowledge of the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy. Upon successful completion of these trainings, educators will be eligible for the RIDE Literacy-Dyslexia Endorsement, thereby fulfilling their proficiency requirements of the Right to Read Act. Structured Literacy is an approach to teaching that integrates speaking, listening, reading, and writing by providing explicit, systematic, diagnostic-prescriptive instruction in phonological and phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence (phonics), syllables, morphology, semantics, and syntax. The Science of Reading (also known as Scientific Reading Instruction) is empirically-based instruction that is grounded in the study of the relationship between cognitive science and educational outcomes.
