As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Plenty of people acknowledge forgetting most of what they read, no matter how much they enjoyed the text. But just because forgetting is a human ...

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Linnea Ehri, Ph.D., distinguished professor emerita of education psychology at the City University of New York, published a benchmark science-of-reading study in 2014 summarizing decades of her work ...