Children’s literacy development benefits when they discuss four key elements of stories read by their caregivers.

An explicit or implicit approach to literacy learning? See why the former approach tends to work better for all learners.

Setting a goal, monitoring progress and deciding on specially designed instruction through an IEP can help students with reading disabilities achieve success.

Teach students to create keyword cards with mnemonics to help unlock and remember the definitions.

Effectively advocate for your child with a disability’s literacy education by thinking through your hopes and concerns.

A reading fluency instructional approach involving practice with a partner and error correction.

Learn about selecting a good mentor text to teach students writing techniques and approaches through instruction and discussion.

Green Hills Area Education Agency enlists Iowa Reading Research Center help in looking at data to evaluate impact of its literacy professional development.

Reflecting on her reading practicum experience, Student Assistant Emily Crandall discusses how it prepared her for student teaching

Teach students to use a word box to practice letter-sound correspondences or syllables for decoding words.

An overview of text structures, why they matter for students’ comprehension of informational text, and a deeper look at text structure mapping as an instructional tool.

Grant Wood AEA prepares school teams to facilitate literacy achievement for adolescents with training and assistance from the Iowa Reading Research Center.