Helping young learners develop literacy skills can be challenging but also rewarding. This is true for emergent readers in early grades, but also is true for students in middle grades.

Juneteenth commemorates the moment enslaved Black Americans in Texas finally learned they were free more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had already been issued.

How missed signs in early literacy can shape a child’s future—and how identification changes everything.

When we talk about the science of reading, conversations often home in on phonics, decoding, and how to teach children to read words.

Strong reading instruction starts in Tier 1. When foundational literacy instruction is aligned with reading research, all students benefit.

Each year, teachers are asked to do more with less. At the same time, as teachers are learning more about evidence-based reading instruction, they feel compelled to do more for their students.