A major shift in early reading instruction is underway throughout the United States.

Reading intervention is an essential component of schoolwide literacy improvement frameworks such as Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS).

Whether you graduated from high school two years ago or 60 years ago, somewhere in late elementary school you had to grind your way through what is typically described as the “standard algorithm” for long division.

What do you do if too many students are not successful as a result of your reading instruction? Give them additional assignments? Refer them to special education?

My students don’t know how to solve word problems. They get anxious, they give up, they just don’t know where to start.

We know explicit, systematic phonics is an essential pillar for beginning readers.