You are invited to read this article (online location below) outlining a framework for the Science of Comprehension of Spoken and Written Texts (SoCSPOW). SoCSPOW is intended as a big tent for people to agree to work together to negotiate understandings rather than argue unproductively about the phenomenon of reading theoretically, as a resource for reflective practitioners in the classroom.
As I understand the spirit, SoCSPOW as a movement is not positioned to provide criteria for policy makers nor commercial publishers. Such criteria ought properly be produced through reflective practice in schools carried out through networks link in inquiry cycles. Teachers are best positioned to assess the value of particular materials and associated teaching methods for local classrooms.
The truth is reading is a miracle, nobody knows everything about it, people get fascinated with a narrow perspective on it (fortunately, because it is slippery to study as an elephant). It’s like trying to study the world and falling in love with biology.
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.1993
According to SoCSPOW as it is discussed in the article, which by modus ponens offers a standing invitation here at least at ltRRtl for SoR moderates to speak up, the following few words are offered by me as a rough draft of a starting principle:
Informal comprehension instruction begins in infancy with the establishment of joint attention. Intentional comprehension instruction should begin in early childhood, predating isolated instruction in phonics, using multidisciplinary scientific research findings to guide evolving, evidence-based conceptions of reading comprehension with its cognitive and linguistic subprocesses appropriately integrated and accommodated in social and cultural formations. Serving as an intellectual and professional resource for reflective pedagogy grounded in practitioner networked inquiry cycles is a core mission for SoPROW. All of the research done under the banner of SoR is incorporated in SoCSPOW.
And wordsmiths here at ltRRtl?