The new report, The Decoding Threshold: Measuring the Roots of Older Students’ Reading Difficulties: New Evidence, shows that this threshold is a significant barrier to older students achieving ...

Teachers use multiple strategies to promote reading acquisition, such as blending the letter sounds in words to support “decoding” while reading. Another balanced literacy strategy that ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below ...

What mystifies many parents is where and why the reading process breaks down. Although, problems may occur in any area, decoding, comprehension, or retention, the root of most reading problems ...

Findings reveal that decodable texts have a moderate impact on improving pseudoword decoding skills but only a small effect on word reading. Reading is a key skill for success in school as well as ...

These practices include a strong emphasis on foundational literacy skills, typically known as phonics and decoding, and an emphasis on developing language, comprehension and knowledge. But ...

But it turns out that many don’t even know what digital literacy fully encompasses. Dr Sabariah Mohamed Salleh of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia says the common idea people have about digital ...