Foundational decoding skills and their impact on comprehension beyond elementary school offer insights into supporting students in reading.

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 ...

For too long, we’ve debated whether reading should be taught as decoding, emphasizing phonics (letters, sounds), or as meaning-based, emphasizing “whole language” or so-called “balanced literacy.” In ...

Students who were below the decoding threshold had lower scores across reading subskills—like vocabulary and comprehension—than their peers.

One aspect of evidence-based reading research is the need for explicit phonics instruction versus implicit instruction. While comprehension of text is the goal, the foundational skills of early ...

Compelling evidence suggests students hit a "decoding threshold" below which reading comprehension grinds to a halt. Fixing it won't be easy.

Therefore, phonological decoding acts as a self-teaching mechanism or 'built-in teacher'. However, all previous connectionist models have learned the task of reading aloud through exposure to a very ...

Literacy and civil rights advocates are calling on Oregon legislators to add targeted investment and accountability targets to Gov. Tina Kotek’s bedrock literacy initiative or risk wasting it ...