Seven evidence-based practices — from phonemic awareness to assessment — with the What Works Clearinghouse findings behind them, classroom videos, and a library of printables. Built for K–6 teachers and the families reading alongside them.
The same seven practices sit underneath both paths. Teachers get the scope and sequence and the evidence; families get what actually helps at home while a child learns to read.
The full teaching progression for each practice, WWC findings with page citations, and printables sorted by the skill they target.
Your child is learning to read right now. Here is what is happening in the classroom, and the short, real things that help at home.
Every practice page carries the definition, the evidence, what research says, a full teaching sequence, and the terms worth knowing.
Teach students to hear, recognize and manipulate sounds in words.
Teach students to connect sounds to letters and teach patterns so students will learn to read and spell.
Teach students strategies to construct meaning and understand the books they read.
Explicitly teach students how to spell, choose words, arrange sentences, generate ideas, organize information, and understand different purposes of writing.
Teach students to learn and recognize words orally and apply this skill to printed words when they are reading.
Teach students to read text with accuracy, automaticity, and expression.
Screen, diagnose, and progress monitor students to drive instruction at school or at home.
Seven practices, the research behind each, and how to teach them step by step.
59 clips of real classrooms modelling each practice in action.
152 downloadable activities and curated links, organised by practice.
36 webinars and video series from The Reading League, LETRS authors, and more.
The Emergent Literacy Portal covers birth through five — phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, oral language, and print awareness for preschool and pre-K.
Seven evidence-based literacy practices for kindergarten through sixth grade — the research, the teaching sequence, and the materials, free for teachers and families.