Scarborough’s Reading Rope Skilled Reading Literacy Knowledge Verbal Reasoning Language Structures Phonological Awareness Sight Recognition Decoding. Title: Scarboroughs . The Reading Rope is a visual metaphor for what we understand about the acquisition of reading from start to finish. I created the image in , based on a large body of important research . Dr. Hollis Scarborough () compares skilled reading to the many strands of a rope. Each strand represents a separate skill that when combined with the others, creates a strong, .Apr 27, · This new downloadable resource illustrates and explores how Reading Recovery aligns with Scarborough’s Reading Rope by weaving Language Knowledge and Word Recognition in increasingly automatic and strategic skilled reading. A PDF document that explains the Scarborough's Reading Rope model and how it is applied in Reading Recovery, a literacy intervention program. The document covers the skills, strategies, and texts involved in reading and writing development. A comprehensive document that explains the science of reading and its implications for instruction and assessment. Includes the Reading Rope framework by Scarborough () and the Simple View of Reading by Gough and Tunmer ().Scarborough’s Reading Rope Skilled Reading Literacy Knowledge Verbal Reasoning Language Structures Phonological Awareness Sight Recognition Decoding. Title. Hollis Scarborough—creator of the famous Reading Rope and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories—is a leading researcher of early language development and its connection to later literacy. • Define the Science of Reading. • Describe the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope and how they demonstrate how children learn to read. • Explain how the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough’s Reading Rope work together to build understanding of how children learn to read.