The Concise Science of Reading

Word Study In the 1970s, Charles Read (appropriately named) discovered that the invented spelling of very young children was not at all random. He recognized…

The Five Pillars of Reading Instruction were set forth by the National Reading Panel in 2000. The panel of educators had spent two years reviewing…

More Pillars From HAPPYReading.org Experts in the field of literacy and of reading instruction, in particular, widely acknowledge the value of the National Reading Panel’s…

“First you learn to read. Then you read to learn.” – Unknown Children spend the earliest years developing their reading skill. Then they rely on…

Why does anyone do anything? People do things because they want to do them… because they have the desire. This has always been true and…

A few years ago a small article appeared in a local newspaper. It was picked up by a number of other news organizations. No wonder……

Our collective goal as educators is that students succeed with reading. Even more than that, we want them to develop into strong communicators with a…

Standards-Based Learning Educators tend to have strong feelings about academic content standards. Whether it’s state standards or national standards or the new Common Core State…