As another school year winds down, we’re taking a moment to look back at the blog posts that resonated most with our readers in the 2024–2025 school year. These top ten posts reflect your commitment to your students, your colleagues, and to literacy instruction in general. Whether you’re revisiting a favorite or catching up on one you missed, we hope you enjoy this roundup of the most-read and most-shared Read Naturally blog posts of the school year.
Read more In 1997, Congress asked the National Reading Panel to do the following four things:
1) Review all the research available (more than 100,000 reading studies) on how children learn to read.
2) Determine the most effective evidence-based methods for teaching children to read.
3) Describe which methods of reading instruction are ready for use in the classroom and recommend ways of getting this information into schools.
4) Suggest a plan for additional research in reading development and instruction (adapted from nichd.nih.gov).
Read more Signs for Sounds is a phonics-based spelling program that aligns with the Science of Reading. This program teaches phonics elements and builds mastery in encoding and decoding words with these elements. It also builds mastery in encoding and decoding high-frequency words that do not follow regular phonics patterns.
Read more Congratulations to Khloe, our June Star of the Month and the last star for the 2024-2025 school year! Khloe is a second grader at Pittsburgh Lincoln School in Pittsburgh, PA, who has made amazing growth using Read Naturally this year. Here is what her teacher, Ms. Shirey, wrote about her:
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Share your student’s success story—nominate him or her for our Star of the Month award. Win a Barnes & Noble gift card for the student and a Read Naturally gift certificate for your class!
