ROYO reimagines early literacy for multilingual learners through evidence-based, expressive reading practice NEW YORK, ...

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

The response, at least in its ideal form, was not to narrow literacy instruction but to strengthen it. Schools restored ...

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

Fluency instruction is one approach that offers great potential for many students, particularly those who experience difficulty in reading. Modeling fluent reading, providing support and assistance ...

For the last 40 years, scientists across a number of disciplines have studied how our brains turn abstract symbols, or letters, into words — in short, how we learn to read. Different pieces of ...

More than 20 years ago, the federal government released a review of decades of reading research whose findings should have charted a path toward better instruction and higher reading levels. Based on ...

Legislation aimed at improving literacy instruction and strengthening policies against teacher misconduct in Kentucky has ...

4. Sight Word mastery (words that do not follow the rules of phonics). Text reading is a combination of phonemic mastery, phonics mastery, and sight word memorization. We combine all three every time ...

Staff report Niles Intermediate School was recently recognized as a Governor’s Science of Reading Champion School. This ...