Transparency and opacity describe the relationship between a word and the word parts that make it up—that is, how easy it is to identify the word parts within the larger word.

Teaching with cognates can help multilingual learners draw on prior knowledge to understand new vocabulary.

Using shared words between languages, or cognates, can improve reading skills for multilingual learners.

Morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning in language. Morphological ability—using morphemes to produce and understand language—supports both word recognition and language comprehension processes.

Research shows that reading and writing automaticity are associated in upper-elementary grades, especially among the highest performing writers.

Allocating more opportunities to read words with feedback may be more efficient than spelling practice to support multisyllabic word reading for upper-elementary students with dyslexia.

Implementing explicit instruction techniques makes lessons clear, efficient, and effective.

Collaborative strategic reading (CSR) is a research-based, whole-group comprehension strategy that has been linked to improvements in comprehension of expository texts, such as those in social studies classes.

An overview of the research on teacher knowledge, the assessments used to measure it, and its impact on student literacy success.

Caleb Ferring is a teacher and wrestling coach in Waukon who discovered he had characteristics of dyslexia after taking the Iowa Reading Research Center’s Dyslexia Overview eLearning module.