Rebecca Kockler of the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund is spot-on when she says that decoding skills must ...

On April 9, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a panel on the decoding threshold, a key but little-known indicator for elementary and middle school students’ reading ability. The panel featured a ...

Reading comprehension is crucial for success in school and society but can be difficult for children initially. Decodable texts are widely believed to help by focusing on taught letter-sound ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walk into an early elementary classroom these days and you'll likely see strong phonics instruction in action: students tapping ...

Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 2 p.m. ET In this session, explore the decoding threshold and how purposeful fluency practice can help students build the accuracy and automaticity needed to access ...