Automaticity is built through volume. But volume alone is not enough. Volume must be designed. At TextProject, we have built a coherent Staircase of Automaticity… Read More »Climbing the Staircase of Automaticity: Why Volume and Design Matter in Adolescent Reading
Too many reading interventions send adolescents back to the beginning—as if a thirteen- or seventeen-year-old were encountering print for the first time. But adolescent readers… Read More »Not Zero: Why Adolescent Reading Interventions Should Start Where Students Are
What does NAEP Proficiency actually represent? Is it intended to describe what is developmentally appropriate for most eighth graders, or does it represent a more… Read More »When Aspirational Benchmarks Become Public Verdicts: Revisiting NAEP Proficiency
While pundits paint dire pictures of 2024 NAEP results for 8th and 12th grades, the reality is more nuanced: many teens simply haven’t read enough… Read More »From Reluctant to Engaged: Open-Access Text Sets That Transform Adolescent Readers
This study examined how the lexical complexity of elementary reading textbooks has changed over six decades, finding that the issue is not declining rigor, but… Read More »Flattening the Developmental Staircase: Lexical Complexity in Elementary Reading Texts Across Six Decades
At TextProject, we believe that literacy is the gateway to agency. But beyond the mechanics of reading lies the why: the stories that stay with us, the… Read More »Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Reviving Freddy’s Favorites
Even at the earliest stages, TextProject texts support knowledge acquisition as well as word recognition. Our resources, including those for beginning readers—BeginningReads and… Read More »Why Knowledge Matters from Day One
By mapping the 2,000 most frequent words in English onto the d-ELP (Developmental English Lexicon Project) difficulty scale, we can create texts that repeat critical… Read More »What Characterizes Effective Texts for Beginning Readers in the Quasi-Regular Orthography of English?
llenge is real: too many adolescents lack reading automaticity. They can decode words, but they don’t read fluently enough to lose themselves in a… Read More »Introducing TextProject’s StoryLabs: Building the Reading Fluency Adolescents Need
When it comes to silent reading, volume matters. Even ten additional minutes for silent reading per day can shape whether students develop the automatic, flexible… Read More »Why Every Minute of Reading Matters
