Lit Timeline

  • 1450

    Printing Press Invention

    The invention of the printing press made books (that were at one point a rare and expensive item) now more obtainable to common folk. It also expanded its languages and has been credited with literacy rates rising so drastically in the 1450s and beyond
  • Lev Vygotsky

  • Jean Piaget

  • Early Screening Requirement Law (IDEA)

    The IDEA ( Education For All Handicapped Children Act) became required in 1975. All public schools have to screen each student to identify any disabilities
  • SoR adoption

    While SoR has been around as long as reading development has been studied, in 2000 SoR hit headlines. SoR is short for the Science of Reading and it is the study of how the brain learns to read
  • ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act)

    The ESSA is a federal law stating that fair and equal opportunities will be provided to each child and that if reading intervention needs to take place, it will. This replace the no child left behind act