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Welcome to The Reading League’s Resource, your source for evidence-aligned reading instruction webinars, books, podcasts, articles, and more. Our resources are curated by experts in the science of reading field and are tailored to guide you as you build your professional knowledge.

Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines

The Curriculum Evaluation Guidelines are designed to highlight any non-aligned practices, or “red flags,” that may be present in the areas of word recognition, language comprehension, reading comprehension, writing, and assessment.

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Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong

There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It’s an expose of how educators came to believe in something that isn’t true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.

Sold a Story

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