In this article, Becky Spence, a classroom teacher and homeschooling mother, describes seven common comprehension strategies to help your children/students think deeper about what they are reading and be able to answer questions.

In this article, researchers Julie Myre-Bisaillon, Annick Tremblay-Bouchard, Véronique Parent, Carole Boudreau, and Anne Rodrigue share their research on the use of orthographic processing to improve a student’s identification of written words. They describe the four strategies they believe are the most effective in improving this ability.

In this article, Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Education at Stanford University Dr. Claude Goldenberg, describes the importance of phonics and understanding meaning when instructing new readers and especially English learners. He uses a metaphor of two roads to illustrate the path to full literacy: the road to code and the road to understanding.

This article by This Reading Mama gives an introduction into the alphabetic principle, what it is and how teachers can help their students build it.

In this article, Louisa Moats and Carol Tolman describe why phonological and phonemic awareness is critical to learning to read in an alphabetic writing system.

In this article, instructional coaches Rachel Darnell, Shannon Barnett, and Jennifer Rickert recount how a shift in early literacy curriculum (Tennessee Foundational Skills Curriculum Supplement) led to significant increases in literacy success in pre-k to second grade students in two months in Elizabethton City Schools, a rural district in Tennessee.