This pushed out the science and social studies instruction,” Cabell said, referring to the 2002 federal law and a $1 billion-a-year reading program it created.

The Simple View of Reading is a theory developed by researchers in the 1980s, which proposed that reading comprehension is the product of spoken language ability and word decoding ability.

This August will usher in the first school year in which Ohio’s 600-plus school districts are required to use instructional materials that align with the science of reading, a body of research into ...