Join us as we welcome Kari Kurto, National Science of Reading Project Director for The Reading League! Kari will review the recently released Curriculum Evaluation Guide to show us how to select quality evidence-aligned instructional materials.

Join our TRL-CA chapter meeting to connect with others in your region who are learning about, and implementing the Science of Reading and Structured Literacy. We meet every other month to connect and learn from each other.  Sometimes we have a guest speaker. Sometimes we have a sponsor giveaway! On March 11, 2025 we will learn about Project Read AI with founder Vivek Ramakrishnan.  They offer free AI-generated decodable resources and more!  We hope to see you there!

The Science of Spelling: Why it Matters for Literacy Why do so many children learn to read but still struggle to spell? And does it really matter? The science of reading points us to effective methods to help students learn to read and spell, including explicit, systematic teaching of the relationships between the pronunciation of words and their spelling. This is an important component of Structured Literacy teaching, but in isolation, it doesn’t equip all students for full literacy. Spelling often lags behind reading, and this matters for literacy! To address this issue, we must factor in the way [...]

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sharon Vaughn, executive director of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin, to TRL CA to look at common misconceptions around the scie4nce of reading. We'll look at what they are as well as how to effectively address them within our educational community.