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 ...
Like many districts, the Marietta school district in Georgia has spent the past five years focused on improving literacy achievement for its youngest students, intent on making sure kids leave ...
Reading experts say decoding involves a series of smaller skills, such as taking apart the sounds in words, known as "segmenting," and then blending them together. It also uses knowledge of letter and ...