Assessment-Driven Instruction: Turning Literacy Data into Better Teaching Few schools today suffer from a shortage of data. Universal screeners, benchmark tests, progress monitoring results, and st … read more

What Teacher Preparation Programs Get Right - and Still Miss - About Reading Instruction Key Takeaways The 2026 NCTQ Teacher Prep Review documents meaningful progress: the share of programs aligned … read more

The Cognitive Cost of Substituting Technology for Literacy Instruction In The Digital Delusion, cognitive neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath (2026) issues a research-driven challenge to the widespre … read more

From Word Structure to Meaning: Morphology as a Foundation for Disciplinary Literacy Students encounter increasingly complex academic texts across domains, such as science and history, as they progre … read more

How the Science of Learning Shapes Effective Reading Instruction Reading comprehension is what we are really trying to achieve when we teach literacy, but it's not just one simple skill. It is actuall … read more

Learning to read and write starts with the basics, which are the foundation for everything that comes later. Research in reading development consistently demonstrates that students who master early li … read more