Trinette Carruthers helps students blend & decode words ending with d, f, l, s, z. Trinette Carruthers helps students blend & decode words ending with d, f, l, s, z.

Anna Scretching-Cole helps students blend and decode words with short a, n, d, p, & c. Anna Scretching-Cole helps students blend and decode words with short a, n, d, p, & c.

Most intervention programs and research-to-practice guides for supporting struggling readers are aimed at elementary school children. But many older readers have trouble with basic skills, too—and ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...