This comprehensive guidebook shows teachers how to implement high-quality evidence-based interactive reading lessons for children with extensive support needs. It features step-by-step instructions for developing, implementing, and assessing shared reading lessons that are meaningful, engaging, and supportive of this population's needs across…

Reading and reading comprehension are crucial skills, yet many primary school students struggle. To address this, fostering both the skill and will for reading is a central aim in literacy education. Reading motivation is considered a multidimensional construct, including autonomous reading motivation (ARM), driven by personal value and pleasure;…

This study aimed to assess English teachers' perceptions of reading instruction and how school locality affects their views on the reading process and ability development. It also examined the relationship between teachers' perceptions and their instructional practices. Using a mixed-methods approach, data were gathered from 255 teachers through…

This study assessed the impacts of the beginning reading para sa mga tsikiting (beginning reading for kids) or BRPT intervention project, an initiative of the College of Education, Caraga State University, Mindanao, Philippines. Using a descriptive research design, it employed the Revised Philippine Informal Reading Inventory (Phil-IRI) Reading…

This article responds to debates about what affects/effects reading in the primary school years, with a focus on tracing examples of matristic ontologies that foster success. We offer matristic ontologies, which are 'an entirely different concept of life, one based not on domination and hierarchies but on the relational web of life', as…

This paper assesses the impact of a program aimed at developing reading fluency in Brazilian students in primary school. Students were randomly assigned to participate in the program. The program was based on the repeated reading principle and consisted of group training sessions in which an instructor used diversified reading techniques to guide…

Blended learning, therefore, involves the use of conventional face-to-face teaching and the application of information technologies that support learning in the classroom. This research investigates the effect of implementing blended learning in the Saudi Arabian context on fourth-grade students' reading and writing in Arabic and English regarding…

The Science of Reading (SoR) movement is positioned as a pathway to equity in literacy development, yet little is known about how equity is defined and enacted within SoR scholarship. This systematic review examined 36 peer-reviewed studies published between 2014 and 2024 that addressed both SoR and equity. Using a framework of nine equity…

This case report describes a decoding intervention that was developed for and implemented with a 15-year-old female with significant word-level reading challenges. The intervention integrated multiple evidence-based approaches to improve decoding, including instruction in (a) phonemes-graphemes (sounds-symbols) that the participant did not know at…

This paper reports on one teacher's adoption and adaption of pre-packaged teaching plans when teaching early years literacy. We hone in on Ms Jordan's (pseudonym) work as an adaptive professional who personalises curriculum enactment for her highly diverse student cohort through continual changes to resource selection, pedagogy and assessment.…

Teachers are asked to use reading science to inform how they teach phonics and phonological awareness. As teachers look to the research base to guide their practice, some questions and concerns regarding what best practice looks like have come up. This article starts with a brief description of phonics and phonemic awareness and then discusses…

Reading comprehension is not a skill someone learns and can then apply in different reading contexts. It is one of the most complex activities that readers engage in on a regular basis, and the ability to comprehend is dependent upon a wide range of knowledge and skills. Despite a common view about comprehension, several lines of enquiry have…

The role of the teacher, specifically teacher craft, is central to engaging students in effective reading instruction. However, the science of reading has revealed that the content taught is also important to reading acquisition. Although the science of reading was aggregated some two decades ago to result in what became known as the five big…

In this article we report the results and classroom implications of a qualitative study that explored third-grade students' interactions with each other as they partner read. Participants included 10 students, each of whom engaged in three readings with a partner during recorded observations. All students had been taught structures for partner…

Informational texts present complex content using language that is simultaneously technical, abstract, dense, and authoritative. This article describes practical strategies to support teachers in using informational picture books to prepare upper elementary school students for navigating the complex language demands necessitated by expository…