DIBELS offers a quick snapshot of a child’s foundational reading skills, but understanding the results requires more than just looking at numbers. Knowing what each measure targets—like phonemic ...

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 ...

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, a critical year for literacy development, according ...