This article focuses on schools and how they usually focus on teaching comprehension skills instead of general knowledge—even though education researchers know better.

The Reading Rope assists in learning the building blocks of words – sounds, their spellings, and word parts. This article breaks down how it works.

Joan Sedita video: Summary Writing: The literature and discourse related to literacy instruction tends to focus on reading, even though writing is just as important for student literacy achievement. In addition, significant attention is paid to the multi-component nature of skilled reading, while writing tends to be referred to as a single, monolithic skill. In this essay, the author reviews the multiplicity of skills involved in reading and writing.

This study investigates how prior knowledge influences the amount of short-term nonverbal and verbal memory and long-term retention in students of high and low ability in reading comprehension.

This excerpt discusses the value of being able to read words from memory by sight, as well as how sight words are developed.

Ohio's plan to raise achievement in literacy serves as a guide to evidence-based language and literacy teaching and learning for all students from birth through grade 12. There is also a link to the appendices of the document as well.

In this PowerPoint, there is a breakdown of the 5 Big Ideas of Literacy and why they are important. There is also an explanation of the 5 Big Ideas of Adolescent Literacy.

In another PowerPoint by Michelle Elia, she reviews a School-Wide Reading Model, provides the purpose and intended use for the Reading Tiered Fidelity Inventory (R-TFI), outlines the data, systems, and practices needed to improve school-wide reading outcomes, and explains the practice administration of the R-TFI using evidence and documentation.

In this PowerPoint, the presenters acknowledge current practices and progress in literacy achievement, examine how leadership drives literacy outcomes for all students, they apply the 3 Aspects of Experience as primary levers for changes in literacy, and finally, they analyze other factors that impact changes in literacy instruction and student outcomes.

In this document by Suzanne Carreker, she reviews the hallmarks of structured literacy instruction, the different components and principals and how to teach them, decoding strategies, and language comprehension.

In this document, the author reviews different statistics on reading and how important it is for children and adolescents to learn how to read. It provides information on best practices for reading, as well as a breakdown of the many areas of reading.

This PowerPoint is presented by Ohio’s Adolescent Literacy Team. Throughout this presentation, there will be a review of Ohio Strategic Plan and plan for literacy, how to support a culture of learning with literacy, intensive individualized interventions, across content area strategies, disciplinary literacy, as well as a culture of learning and teachers’ impact.

This YouTube Channel provides tons of videos on how to teach students to read. It covers topics that include, phoneme articulation, structured literacy lessons, phonics, spelling, syntax, and much more. This channel provides an excellent way for you to begin learning the best practices in education.

Throughout this website, Nancy Young provides information on an evidence-based approach to the teaching of reading, spelling, and writing. There is also an infographic on the “Ladder of Reading”. This site includes print outs, supporting statistics, research, videos, and additional resources.

In this newsletter, you will find nine recorded webinars all presented by Carolyn Turner. These webinars all focus on Dr. Kilpatrick's textbook titled, Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties. In each session, Turner will explore what research says about teaching reading, how it is currently being taught, and practical ways to bridge research to classroom practice.

The Colorado Department of Education has provided 13 modules on Dr. Kilpatrick's textbook titled, Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, and presented by Dr. Kilpatrick. In each module there is a video recording, summary, and a reflect/connect piece.

The Ohio Department of Education, through its Office for Exceptional Children, is implementing a comprehensive State Systemic Improvement Plan to improve the educational results of Ohio’s students with disabilities. The plan places the state’s strategic focus over the next several years on the area of early literacy. This focus recognizes the importance of early literacy and its relationship with student outcomes in Ohio. Students who do not acquire adequate language and pre-literacy skills struggle with learning to read. Students who read poorly in third grade are likely to read poorly in later years. Students who read poorly are more likely to drop out of school and, consequently, are rarely college and career ready. Learn more about each phase here.

This webinar is on Background Knowledge and Complex texts, presented by Michele Elia. The goals of this webinar are to understand the research on the impact of background knowledge on reading comprehension, as well as learn when to use text sets and resources to find and create text sets.

During the March 9, 2020 Research to Practice Symposium, each presenter provided a one-on-one interview about their research, the importance of partnerships and more. Please enjoy the following video interviews from the experts.

Learning how to read is not something that comes naturally. Many children need instruction from their teachers that follows the research on the most effective and efficient methods of teaching reading (often referred to as the "science of reading"). The path to literacy is supported by many actors, but states have a role in four essentials pillars that are explained in depth throughout this article.

The Reading League offers recommendations for books with scientific evidence on how we learn to read and how to best teach reading. There are also professional development videos, recommended audios, and frequently requested resources.

Reading Simplified is a YouTube Channel that provides educational videos on teaching literacy for both beginning and striving readers. There are strategies for streamlined reading instruction and accelerated reading achievement for students.

This YouTube Channel is brought to you by Walsh University. Included in this channel are videos that promote literacy in schools. Some of the expert speakers who are included in these videos are, Melissa Butler, Michelle Elia, Dr. Mary Dahlgren, Dr. Steve Dykstra, and David Kilpatrick.

This video reviews how an individuals needs to understand the reading process before they can design effective reading instruction and interventions. This video explains how that can be accomplished.

Which reading programs present special challenges to English learners? To native English speakers at risk of reading failure? This video reviews beginning reading programs based on top-down, bottom-up, and interactive reading theories.

Applying the Principles of Explicit Instruction to ONLINE Teaching of Strategies, Concepts, and Vocabulary Terms.

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Learn why many popular approaches to reading achievement not only don't work, but may even lead to lower test scores, and learn several practical steps that can help children read better and achieve higher test scores.

Since its founding in 1920, the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been training leaders to transform education in the United States and around the globe. Today, our faculty, students, and alumni are studying and solving the most critical challenges facing education: student assessment, the achievement gap, urban education, and teacher shortages, to name just a few. Our work is shaping how people teach, learn, and lead in schools and colleges as well as in after-school programs, high-tech companies, and international organizations. The HGSE community is pushing the frontiers of education, and the effects of our entrepreneurship are improving the world.

Reading is a constellation of complex processes, which can be tough to manage for a beginning reader. G. Reid Lyon identifies the processes involved in reading, and describes how each is crucial for reading success. Two commonly confused terms, phonics and phonemic awareness, are defined and exemplified. Lyon also emphasizes the emotion involved in success and failure for beginning readers.