Topic: Literacy

Outline of everything a literacy coach needs to know about the literary curriculum, evidence-based literacy instruction, and assessment.

Explore what’s new in Saxon Reading Foundations and how these updates reflect the most current science of reading research.

Great coaching is not rigid, but multifaceted, and responsive to each teacher’s unique needs.

How can we make phonics instruction work for every child regardless of ability or background?

Help your students engage with reading! Moonlit Mountain Readers is a collection of decodable books designed to build phonics and early literacy skills through fantasy stories and engaging characters.

Real-world content connects reading to the world around us, inspiring curiosity, building knowledge, and supporting literacy growth.

Help your students engage with reading! Moonlit Mountain Readers is a collection of decodable books designed to build phonics and early literacy skills through fantasy stories and engaging characters.

In this post, we’ll share four simple, classroom-ready strategies for applying the Active View of Reading in K–2 instruction.

The Active View of Reading invites educators to think more holistically about what it takes for young readers to thrive.

Discover why content area reading matters and how integrating literacy with science and social studies builds knowledge, deepens understanding, and sparks student curiosity.

Learn about how Saxon Reading Foundations was inspired by one family's journey through dyslexia and transformed into a proven, phonics-based reading program helping millions.

The Active View of Reading serves as a guide for literacy instruction, emphasizing the importance of an engaged, strategic, and active approach to reading.

Saxon Reading Foundations primarily focuses on teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency while building children’s decoding skills.

Background knowledge acts as a framework that students can use to connect new information to what they already know, deepening their reading comprehension.

Comprehension is the heart of literacy instruction and targeting it during whole-group literacy time ensures that all students are building the skills they need to become thoughtful, engaged readers.

Saxon® Reading Foundations’ approach to teaching phonics and spelling concepts is grounded in foundational research from the science of reading and cognitive science.

The most effective small-group literacy interventions offer a targeted, supportive environment where students struggling with literacy can flourish.

The audiobook of Literacy's Democratic Roots: A Personal Tour Through 8 Big Ideas