A new study explores how integrating a content-rich approach to early literacy instruction can accelerate learning in kindergarten. This infographic highlights key findings from a curriculum that uses science and social studies to build vocabulary and comprehension.

Dyslexia is the most common learning disability, making it essential for states to enact policies that support students who struggle with reading.

As classrooms across the United States continue to change, it is critical that educators are able to successfully address the unique language and learning needs of English learners (ELs) and provide efficient and high-quality supports when gaps in achievement are identified. This brief describes some best practices that educators can use in their classrooms to help ELs acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically. 

Dynamic assessment is a testing approach that focuses on how well a student can learn something new as opposed to what a student currently knows. It combines features of single timepoint or “static” assessment and multiple timepoint assessment to predict reading problems. 

It is important for parents and teachers to understand how they can support a child’s development. This includes properly assessing all key components of language skills and engaging in interactive activities early in the child’s life.

This brief emphasizes the importance of using screening tools that are free from statistical bias, ensuring all students can fairly demonstrate their abilities.

This brief and infographic highlight the importance of explicit vocabulary instruction as part of intensifying reading instruction, with a focus on what to teach and how to teach it. Grounded in the science of reading, this resource offers practical guidance to help educators deliver instruction that is clear, accessible, and effective for all learners.

An early skill in learning to read has as much to do with hearing how words sound as it does with seeing how words are written. Phonological awareness involves being able to recognize and manipulate the sounds within words. An example of phonological awareness is hearing in your mind the word created by replacing the first sound in “fish” with the first sound in “day,” to make the word, “dish.” 

Students with intellectual disabilities can obtain higher levels of reading achievement. However, deficits in working memory can make learning early reading skills more difficult.

Gain an understanding of The Simple View of Reading, and two areas that are key to learning to read: accuracy and comprehension.

4 steps to teach literacy fluency with text.

This brief discusses two areas of literacy development that students must learn so that they can do well in school.