Dr. Timothy Shanahan provides important information for all of us concerned about reading instruction for children in his 2020 Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ) article entitled “What Constitutes a Science of Reading Instruction?” This issue brief provides a summary of Shanahan’s key ideas in this article, which is one of a host of scholarly papers in a 2020 RRQ themed issue about the science of reading. 06/16/2026 10:09:00 AM_DO NOT USE TAGS - They will be deleted!