Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

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 ...

From preschool rhyming games to phonics-based instruction, research shows that early reading skills are a powerful predictor of lifelong success. By third grade, children shift from learning to read ...

Mini-books and decodable texts are powerful tools for helping young learners connect letter sounds to words, build fluency, and gain reading confidence. By focusing on phonics patterns like consonant ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

Q: I want to share my suggestions for the parents of children who have difficulty reading or don’t enjoy reading, because I also had difficulty reading as a child and young adult. I didn’t remember ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

This year marks the UK’s National Year of Reading, which aims to rebuild good reading habits and enjoyment as child and ...