Through the Spark Early Literacy Hub, caregivers can access the tools they need to support their children’s early literacy skills.

Dr. Ece Demir-Lira, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa, shares how caregivers can support their children's early literacy development.

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.

Kristin To has been recognized as a University of Iowa Student Employee of the Year award winner for her work as a graphic storyteller and computer programmer at the Iowa Reading Research Center.

The new Morpheme Lab includes resources for educators interested in implementing explicit morphology instruction.

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.