What is the History of the National Reading Panel? What is the History of the National Reading Panel? In 1997, Congress asked NICHD, through its  Child Development and Behavior Branch , to work with the U.S. Department of Education in establishing a  …

Reading Impacts Reading Impacts National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - The Nations Report Card on Reading In 2019, only 33% of fourth-graders were at or above NAEP Proficient level on the reading assessment. The following data summaries show …

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong By Emily Hanford Emily Hanford, an award-winning education reporter who has produced groundbreaking podcasts including At a Loss for Words: How a …

Hard Words Hard Words By Emily Hanford Illustration by Katherine Zhou for APM Reports In Emily Hanford's podcast Hard Words, she begins, "It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a …

Fast Facts Fast Facts Did you know that adults have a very large library of words that they read automatically? Amongst literate adults this library can contain between 30,000 and 70,000 words. Teachers call these sight words. These are words that are …

Recommended Professional Organizations The International Dyslexia Association (IDA)  is an international organization that concerns itself with the complex issues of dyslexia. The IDA membership consists of a variety of professionals in partnership with …

Five Crossover Elements for English Learner Success Five Crossover Elements for English Learner Success Language barriers should not prevent educators or other school staff from communicating and including families of English Learners (ELs). But …

Why Do Administrators and Educators Prefer Really Great Reading? Why Do Administrators and Educators Prefer Really Great Reading? Really Great Reading has been leading the charge in effective Science of Reading strategies for over 18 years with our proven …