Learn More About Evidence-Based Reading Instruction

We know what works when teaching children to read. Click on the links below for more information.

1. Explicit, Systematic, Cumulative, Diagnostic Instruction

2. Skills and Knowledge of Language

3. Components of Fluency

4. Knowledge of Community, Science, Art, and Physical Education

Science of Reading (SOR)

1. What is the Science of Reading?

2. How Your Brain Learns to Read

3. National Center on Improving Literacy

4. How the Science of Reading Informs 21st-Century Education

5. Teaching Reading is Rocket Science

6. Putting Students on the Path to Learning

7. Teacher Training Programs

Parent Advocacy Information

1. Sold A Story - Investigative Reporter Emily Hanford

2. At a Loss for Word - Emily Hanford

3. For the Students We Wish We had Taught Better

4. How to Tell if the Reading Program is Based on SOR

5. Explanation of Different Reading Programs

6. Intervention that Works

7. Why Jonny Can’t Read

8. Why Running Records and Leveled Readers Don’t Mix with Phonics

9. Literacy is Equity

10. When Reading Prevents Kids from Doing Math

11. NAACP Targets a New Civil Rights Issue - Reading

12. Why Do Some Children Learn to Read without Explicit Instruction

Videos

1. Purple Challenge Video 1

2. Purple Challenge Video 2

3. Modeling the Correct Sounds of the 44 Phonemes

4. Legacy of Anti-Literacy Laws

5. Five things about Dyslexia

Research

1. Diagnostic Accuracy of Oral Reading Frequency

2. Ending the Reading Wars

3. Reading and Language

4. Examination of Units of Study by Lucy Calkins

Learning from Other States

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