BUILDING LITERACY
Building Literacy provides resources for highly effective approaches that fully develop all students’ literacy abilities and meet the demands of state standards. Assessing for learning and assisting struggling readers are emphasized. Additional resources can be found in the author’s text: Closing the Literacy Gap: Accelerating the Progress of Underperforming Students (Guilford Press, 2022).

Assessing for Learning

Download informal tests for assessing basic phonics skills, sight word fluency,

and syllabic analysis. Learn about additional assessment resources.

Developing Syllabic Analysis

Explore a scope and sequence for developing syllabic analysis skills and download lessons for teaching four key syllabic analysis strategies.

Developing Phonics Skills

Learn two highly effective approaches, word building and speech-to-print phonics for developing basic phonics skills and eight high-payoff activities for reinforcing these skills. Learn how to match early readers with materials that reinforce the skills they have been taught. See a listing of children’s books and articles that are ordered according to the phonics skills needed to read them.

assisting struggling readers

Learn about an approach for bringing below-level students up to or close to grade level: the steppingstone approach. In addition, there is an annotated list of high-quality informational books for below-level readers.

creating readers

Find out about this source of dozens of high-quality periodicals that is absolutely free.

The periodicals range from pre-k to high school and are available to anyone who has a library card.