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

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 ...

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 ...

Despite expectations that students master basic reading skills by third grade, many continue to struggle with reading into upper elementary school and beyond. A new study commissioned by the Advanced ...

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 ...