Each practice page carries the full teaching progression, sample activities written for K–6 classrooms, What Works Clearinghouse findings with page citations, and a glossary. The printables library is sorted by the same seven practices.
Instruction follows a logical order from easiest to hardest — single letter-sounds before digraphs, blending before manipulation, sentence-level before text-level.
Each step builds on what came before, with continual review until mastery. Skills stay in rotation after they are introduced.
Gradual release — I do, we do, you do. Model out loud, practise together with corrective feedback, then independent work.
Screen, diagnose, teach, progress monitor. Assessment is its own practice on this portal because it drives all the others.
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.
Screening, diagnostics, progress monitoring, and the MTSS model — including a nine-area assessment progression from print awareness through spelling, with linked tools for each area. Open the Assessment practice →
Every practice page ends with a skill-by-skill sequence, so a screening result maps directly to the next thing to teach — and the printables library carries materials for that same skill.
36 curated webinars and video series — The Reading League's Science of Reading series, Keys to Reading, Voyager Sopris, edWeb, and EBLI.
Seven evidence-based literacy practices for kindergarten through sixth grade — the research, the teaching sequence, and the materials, free for teachers and families.