For Educators

For Educators

For Educators

Research, essays, podcasts, and webinars curated for teachers and reading specialists — newest first.

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Reading Science

It is a beautiful collection of some of the most important components in human language, oral and written. Indeed it reflects how the one (oral) is embodied in the latter (written).

5 min

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Reading Science

The E in the original RAVE-O represented the importance of Engagement for our students (AND those who teach them!)

10 min

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Webinar

Live with Dr. Wolf and three interventionists. Q&A. Recording available to registrants.

60 min

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Webinar

Wolf's newest educator webinar asks the field's next question: what does the science of reading demand beyond foundational skills?

64 min

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Classroom Tools

Ready-to-print word-web cards for Tier 2 vocabulary. Grades 2-4. Aligned to RAVE-O Units 1-6.

0 min

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ELL

Cross-linguistic transfer, prosody, and the role of cognates in RAVE-O's ELL adaptation.

8 min

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Reading Science

Maryanne Wolf on the cognitive 'elbow room' growing readers need — and why explicit, multi-component instruction creates it.

5 min

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POSSUM Model

The 'S' in POSSUM. A close look at how rich semantic networks accelerate word retrieval and comprehension.

7 min

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POSSUM Model

Decoding gets readers in the door. Fluency and comprehension need five components working together.

6 min

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POSSUM Model

How do you actually teach fluency? Wolf and Melissa Orkin walk through the linguistic systems behind POSSUM, with classroom examples.

50 min

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Intervention

Grade-at-intervention and learner profile predict outcomes. Three lenses every interventionist should hold.

12 min

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Deep Reading

Wolf on her relationship to the Science of Reading movement, what screens do to the reading circuit, and what children need before age five.

61 min

Young students engaged in class

Intervention

'The earlier the intervention, the better the results for that child over time.' Wolf on screening, dyslexia, and acting before failure.

62 min

Books stacked on a classroom table

Reading Science

What should a teacher do differently knowing how the reading circuit works? Wolf talks classrooms, engagement, and dyslexia with Jennifer Serravallo.

38 min

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Intervention

Recorded for California educators: Wolf translates dyslexia research into classroom practice in the state's own expert webinar series.

61 min

Teacher reading with elementary students

Reading Science

Reading is not natural: every child's brain must build the circuit from scratch. Wolf's Kappan essay on teaching both the science and the love of reading.

8 min

Child practicing writing at school

Intervention

Rewards can get compliance. This research shows what builds the real thing: competence, choice, and connection for striving readers.

9 min

Parent and child reading together at home

For Families

Certain kinds of parental homework help predict helpless behaviors in struggling readers. Here's what the research suggests doing instead.

9 min

Kindergarten students in a classroom

Research

Risk profiles visible in kindergarten — including the double-deficit profile — stay stable over time. The case for screening early and acting early.

11 min

Abstract visualization of neural connections

Research

Why does naming colors quickly predict reading years later? The definitive review calls RAN 'a microcosm of the processes involved in reading.'

15 min

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Research

How do you turn findings about naming speed and the reading circuit into a daily lesson? This paper shows the blueprint — free to read.

12 min

Child absorbed in reading a book

Deep Reading

What exactly is 'deep reading'? The essay that defined it — and asked, early, what digital reading would do to it.

8 min

Open book resting on a table

Research

You can train each subskill and still not get a fluent reader. This study explains why fluency must be taught as a connected whole.

12 min

Typography letters arranged on a surface

Reading Science

An in-depth interview on what rapid naming reveals about the reading brain — the plain-language companion to her most influential research.

40 min

Open book with pages catching the light

Research

Before 2001, fluency had no agreed definition. This paper gave it one — and mapped how to teach it, component by component.

12 min

Elementary classroom during a reading lesson

Research

The paper that first laid out RAVE-O's goals and principles — including its boldest aim: changing how children feel about words.

10 min

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Research

Some children have phonological deficits. Some have naming-speed deficits. Those with both struggle most — and need different teaching.

14 min

Vintage alphabet letters

Reading Science

Before RAN was in screening batteries, it was a hypothesis. This is the longitudinal study that started the whole research program.

10 min

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Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

© 2026 Nido Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.

Nido Learning logo

Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

© 2026 Nido Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.

Nido Learning logo

Evidence-based reading programs grounded in 20+ years of research. Created by Dr. Maryanne Wolf.

© 2026 Nido Learning, Inc. All rights reserved.