Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walk into an early elementary classroom these days and you'll likely see strong phonics instruction in action: students tapping ...

Rebecca Kockler of the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund is spot-on when she says that decoding skills must ...

A whole language approach doesn't argue against the importance of phonemic awareness. But it acknowledges it is not all that should be included in reading instruction. It is important to assess ...

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 ...

Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A new study commissioned by the Advanced ...

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET In this session, explore the decoding threshold and how purposeful fluency practice can help students build the accuracy and automaticity needed to access ...

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 ...

Ask an early-elementary teacher what the recently popularized term “science-based reading instruction” means, and the response is likely to include something about decoding—the process of translating ...

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 ...