McGraw Hill has announced the integration of ROAR^® (Rapid Online Assessment of Reading) into its K–12 literacy portfolio. Developed at the Stanford Graduate School of Education’s Reading and Dyslexia Research Program, ROAR is the only literacy screener designed to assess foundational reading skills across the full K–12 continuum.

The addition of ROAR is intended to strengthen connections between assessment, curriculum, and intervention, enabling educators to identify student needs earlier and provide targeted support. The tool, grounded in more than a decade of reading and neuroscience research, helps educators recognize diverse reading challenges, including dyslexia, and apply evidence‑based interventions more effectively.

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Key points

• Writing involves learning the code for mapping spoken to written language.
• Dysgraphia is more than just bad handwriting and the latter may have different causes.
• Dysgraphia arises from inefficiencies in the linguistic or other brain systems.

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San Antonio’s Celebrate Dyslexia, known for championing dyslexia services for children, is now working directly with educators who want to help students with the learning disability in the classroom. 

The Academic Language Therapy Association, a national group that sets standards for language therapy certifications, recently granted Celebrate Dyslexia’s train program an “independent course approval.”

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