Vincent Hyland and Melissa Jacobs write: “Bearing in mind the steep decline in US standardized test scores, education departments around the country are reevaluating the methods that have been used to teach literacy. As a result, many librarians are asking how they can help foster kids’ literacy as well as their love of reading. The science of reading, a phrase that has become almost ubiquitous in conversations about literacy, refers to the massive corpus of scholarship that investigates the different factors influencing a person’s ability to read. School librarians are well positioned to support the science of reading in their schools.”