In this article, Bonnie Terry, a board-certified educational therapist, discusses the connection between vocabulary and comprehension and best practices for teachers in improving both skills in their students.

In this article, Louisa Moats and Carol Tolman discuss signs of struggle in older students and how to support them with phonological instruction, such as helping them distinguish correct pronunciations and words with similar speech sounds.

In this article, Shannon Kelley, MAT, lays out a 7-step plan to teach K-5th grade students how to spell regular words (words that follow the sound-spelling rules of the language).

In this article, Shirley Houston, a literacy trainer that works with children with learning difficulties, describes what automaticity in reading is and how you can help your students/child develop it in order to become more fluent readers.

In this podcast episode, The Reading League interviewer Laura Stewart talks to Emily Hanford, a senior education correspondent at APM (American Public Media) Reports. Hanford, whose work has been featured by NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc., talks about her discoveries in education reporting, what problems many kids are facing in early literacy, why those problems exist, and the importance of fixing them.

In this article by the Right to Read Project, the authors discuss some of the misconceptions of reading instruction for children who stumble on words/struggle to pronounce them correctly and describe some alternative literacy techniques that will benefit the child in the long term.