Spotlight on Structured Literacy

Registration coming soon. No fee. The Role of Language in Reading: From Word Meaning to Inference-Making This first webinar in the 2026 Spotlight on Structured Literacy series will explore how language processes such as vocabulary, syntax, and inference-making work together to support listening and reading comprehension. We will review key research in comprehension and discuss […]

Registration coming soon. No fee. Syntax: Its Role in Reading Comprehension Syntax, the term for sentence-level language structures, governs how words are arranged to make meaning. Sentences are the building blocks of text, so readers must derive meaning from individual sentences in order to attain text-level comprehension (Scott, 2009). The sentence is the linguistic environment […]