In grades 3-8, it’s critical to continue explicit teaching of advanced phonics (e.g., multi-syllable words, unusual spelling patterns), fluency, vocabulary, morphology, spelling, reading comprehension (at grade level), and writing.

Poetic picture book author Dianne White invites readers to slow down, look closely, and rediscover trees as unique sources of beauty, inspiration, and story waiting to be seen.

Recent research has found that the schools with the greatest achievement gains teach with grade-level texts, rather than instructional level texts.

Get tips on how and when to practice two different kinds of fluency modeling. Remember that the goal is comprehension — to improve children’s ability to translate print into language that they can understand.

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne offers a lyrical meditation on the quiet companions that are with us through every chapter of life.

Learn the common terminology of reading research and how to gauge if a strategy or intervention can be implemented in your classroom with fidelity and a measurable effect on your students’ learning. 

A science of reading requires that our prescriptions for teaching be tempered by rigorous instructional evaluations. If a claim hasn’t been tried out and found effective, then the claims aren’t part of reading science.