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Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Ep. 212: Beyond the Science of Reading with Natalie Wexler – Podcast Reflection By Alexa Grabowski In Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Episode 212, Beyond the Science of Reading with Natalie Wexler , Wexler expands on key ideas from her latest book, Beyond the Science of Reading: Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning . She argues that the reading crisis is, at its core, a learning crisis—one that requires integrating cognitive science principles into literacy instruction. She also emphasizes the need for literacy to be embedded across all subject areas through cross-disciplinary teaching and explicit writing instruction. The Science of Reading is a research-based approach to reading instruction grounded in scientific findings. However, because writing is deeply connected to reading, literacy instruction should be viewed through the broader lens of the Science of Learning (cognitive science), rather than being limited to just the S...