A brief summary of the IES Practice Guide on effective literacy and English language instruction for elementary English learners.

A brief summary of the IES Practice Guide on steps that teachers, reading coaches, and principals can take to successfully improve reading comprehension for young readers.

A brief summary of the IES Practice Guide to improve students’ foundational reading skills. The IES practice guide on Foundational...

Learn about instructional coaching for improving literacy outcomes, and get the resources you need to hire and implement an instructional coach.

A new study explores how integrating a content-rich approach to early literacy instruction can accelerate learning in kindergarten. This infographic highlights key findings from a curriculum that uses science and social studies to build vocabulary and comprehension.

As classrooms across the United States continue to change, it is critical that educators are able to successfully address the unique language and learning needs of English learners (ELs) and provide efficient and high-quality supports when gaps in achievement are identified. This brief describes some best practices that educators can use in their classrooms to help ELs acquire the language and literacy skills needed to succeed academically. 

This brief and infographic highlight the importance of explicit vocabulary instruction as part of intensifying reading instruction, with a focus on what to teach and how to teach it. Grounded in the science of reading, this resource offers practical guidance to help educators deliver instruction that is clear, accessible, and effective for all learners.

Students with intellectual disabilities can obtain higher levels of reading achievement. However, deficits in working memory can make learning early reading skills more difficult.

Structured Literacy is an approach to reading instruction that explicitly teaches systematic word-identification strategies.

This brief and infographic detail the intensification process and describe what and how to teach students who struggle with reading includin

Effective instruction for students who struggle with reading should be both systematic and explicit.

An overview why early intervention is so important for kids with dyslexia.