The first week of October is celebrated each year as Dyslexia Awareness Week. It is a time for educators to share what we’ve learned about dyslexia as well as dive into how differentiated, systematically designed, and explicitly delivered instruction helps ALL students, including those with dyslexia, achieve literacy success.

You’ve done the hard work of carefully choosing a high-quality, well-designed, and research-supported structured literacy curriculum and you can’t wait to see the magic happening in classrooms throughout your school.

Learning to read is one of the hallmarks of elementary classroom instruction. And a focus on developing strong word recognition skills in early grades is essential for developing skilled readers.

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.