LitHubAZ

A Source for What Works

Improving student outcomes in Arizona requires the commitment to provide evidence-based, high-quality instruction, interventions, and supports that are proven to help children develop the language and literacy skills they need to be successful in school.

Literacy tools and strategies available on LitHubAZ include:

• Effective Literacy Practices — Literacy standards and proven instructional strategies to support children from early childhood through high school.
• High-Quality Instructional Materials — A tool to support LEAs in finding evidence-based core reading, intervention, and supplemental programs.
• AZ Chronic Absence Resource Guide — A framework of proven strategies to reduce chronic absence and boost school attendance.
• Dyslexia Resource Guide — Step-by-step information for families to work with schools and help their child improve their reading skills.
• Smart Talk — Easy ways for parents and caregivers of babies and toddlers to build early literacy skills.

The information provided in LitHubAZ is derived from decades of research into how skilled reading develops — often referred to as “the science of reading” — and how to most effectively support children in learning to read, including a list of seminal studies compiled by the Arizona Department of Education as part of its high-quality literacy review process.

Emphasizing more than just phonics and decoding, structured literacy instruction based in the science of reading simultaneously develops comprehension, vocabulary, and background knowledge simultaneously with the development of word recognition. All the foundational skills must be woven together so that children can make meaning from the words they read.