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Literacy Leadership Brief: Teaching and Assessing Spelling
Position Statement and Research Brief: Digital Resources in Early Childhood Literacy Development
Position Statement and Research Brief: Engagement and Adolescent Literacy
Literacy Leadership Brief: Creating Passionate Readers Through Independent Reading
Literacy Leadership Brief: The Power and Promise of Read-Alouds and Independent Reading
Literacy Leadership Brief: Expanding the Canon: How Diverse Literature Can Transform Literacy Learning
Literacy Leadership Brief: Beyond the Numbers: Using Data for Instructional Decision Making
Literacy Leadership Brief: Exploring the 2017 NAEP Results: Systemic Reforms Beat Simplistic Solutions
Literacy Leadership Brief: Improving Digital Practices for Literacy, Learning, and Justice: More Than Just Tools
Literacy Leadership Brief: Transforming Literacy Teacher Preparation: Practice Makes Possible
Literacy Leadership Brief: Democratizing Professional Growth With Teachers: From Development to Learning
Literacy Leadership Brief: Reading Fluently Does Not Mean Reading Fast
Literacy Leadership Brief: Literacy Coaching for Change: Choices Matter
Literacy Leadership Brief: Explaining Phonics Instruction: An Educator's Guide
Literacy Leadership Brief: What Effective Pre-K Literacy Instruction Looks Like
Literacy Leadership Brief: Content Area and Disciplinary Literacy: Strategies and Frameworks
Literacy Leadership Brief: The Roles of Standardized Reading Tests in Schools
Literacy Leadership Brief: Second-Language Learners' Vocabulary and Oral Language Development
Literacy Leadership Brief: Early Literacy Learning for Immigrant and Refugee Children: Parents' Critical Roles
Literacy Leadership Brief: Overcoming the Digital Divide: Four Critical Steps
Literacy Leadership Brief: Characteristics of Culturally Sustaining and Academically Rigorous Classrooms
Literacy Leadership Brief: Literacy Assessment: What Everyone Needs to Know
Research Advisory: Literacy Teacher Preparation
Research Advisory Addendum: Dyslexia: Response to the International Dyslexia Association
Advocacy Position on ESEA Reauthorization
Advocacy Toolkit: Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
White Paper: Frameworks for Literacy Education Reform
Research Advisory: Dyslexia
Preliminary Report: Teacher Preparation for Literacy Instruction
Position Statement: Collaborating for Success: The Vital Role of Content Teachers in Developing Disciplinary Literacy With Students in Grades 6–12
Position Statement: The Multiple Roles of School-Based Specialized Literacy Professionals
Research Brief: The Multiple Roles of School-Based Specialized Literacy Professionals
Leisure Reading
Using High Stakes Assessments for Grade Retention and Graduation Decisions
Close Reading and Far Reaching Classroom Discussion: Fostering a Vital Connection
Formative Assessment
Literacy Implementation Guidance for the ELA Common Core State Standards
New Literacies and 21st-Century Technologies
Response to Intervention
Literacy Development in the Preschool Years
Investment in Teacher Preparation in the United States
The Role of Reading Instruction in Addressing the Overrepresentation of Minority Children in Special Education in the United States
Family-School Partnerships: Essential Elements of Literacy Instruction in the United States
Integrating Literacy and Technology in the Curriculum
Supporting Young Adolescents' Literacy Learning
What Is Evidence-Based Reading Instruction?
Second-Language Literacy Instruction
Providing Books and Other Materials for Classroom and School Libraries
High-Stakes Assessments in Reading
Using Multiple Methods of Beginning Reading Instruction
NAEYC/Learning to Read and Write
Phonemic Awareness and the Teaching of Reading
On the Role of Phonics in Reading Instruction
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