Literature-Based Programs

teachers and parents nationwide for free, the authors make a very strong claim that systematic and explicit phonics instruction “significantly improves children’s reading compre-hension. Systematic phonics instruc-tion results in better growth in children’s ability to comprehend what they read than non-systematic or no phonics instruction. This is not surprising because the ability to read the words in a text accurately and quickly is highly related to suc-cessful reading comprehension