On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

Reading comprehension is crucial for success in school and society but can be difficult for children initially. Decodable texts are widely believed to help by focusing on taught letter-sound ...

Why CVC matters: Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words like 'cat' and 'hat' help children master predictable letter-sound patterns, forming the foundation for reading fluency. Engaging practice tools: From ...

The most recent round of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results delivered a familiar gut punch: Just 30 percent of eighth graders in the United States read at or above the ...

In school, many kindergarten and first-grade students are asked to memorize lists of common words, which are sometimes called “sight words.” This practice skips important steps. The idea that children ...

There are several cognitive processes involved in learning to read. Monkey Business Images/Getty Images Any parent who has watched a child learning to read knows that it is a journey. Various skills ...