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The Research Behind the Practice

Every design choice in the program, grounded in current, cited research. Each document stands on its own with works cited.
PURPOSE
This page gathers the research briefs behind every design choice in the Supplemental Support System.
RATIONALE
Each choice, from music and word study to feedback and motivation, rests on current, cited research, so a teacher can see the reason behind the practice.
HOW TO USE THIS PAGE
Open any brief to read it in full. Each one stands on its own and closes with works cited.
We do not ask you to take our word for it. These briefs lay out the research behind how we teach, from the science of music and word study to reading, writing, memory, feedback, and motivation. Each one closes by showing how it lives in The Writing Academy.

Music and Word Study

★Why Music, Rhythm, and Rhyme Belong in the Learning BrainOpen → ★Why Thirty Prefixes, Thirty Roots, and Thirty SuffixesOpen →

Instruction and the Science of Learning

★Why Students Learn by DoingOpen → ★One Content, Every Skill: Threaded ContentOpen → ★Reading and Writing Grow TogetherOpen → ★Knowledge Is the Engine of ComprehensionOpen → ★Come Back and Recall: Spaced Practice and RetrievalOpen → ★The Words That Carry the Meaning: Academic VocabularyOpen → ★I Do, We Do, You Do: Explicit InstructionOpen → ★Feedback That Moves LearningOpen → ★Words, Music, and Pictures Together: Dual CodingOpen → ★Motivation and JoyOpen →