A structured, research-based literacy approach designed to support educators and build confident, capable readers in every classroom.
Created by educators and tested in real classrooms, our approach combines structured phonics, decodable texts, and practical teaching methods.
Five essential skills that work together to build confident, fluent, and independent readers.
Phonics is the attachment of spoken sounds to letters and letter patterns. Phonics is the technical process of reading; it is one piece in a range of skills needed to become a confident and capable reader, but a systematic phonics approach is essential…
A student’s vocabulary is the collection of words they have learnt together with the understanding that goes along with them. The acquisition of vocabulary occurs through channels like class discussions, read-alouds, and prior knowledge.
Phonemic awareness is defined by reading experts as the ability to “focus on and manipulate phonemes in spoken words” (NICHD, 2000). Express Readers’ attentions are on helping students…
Fluency is the ability to retain and retrieve phonics and words, the automaticity with which the words are decoded or recognized, and the proficiency in using intonation and expression to clarify the meaning of text.
Comprehension is the action or capability of understanding. Comprehension in reading is being able to pull meaning from reading and make connections within that meaning.
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