This document summarizes research on effective strategies for literacy and language arts. It finds that phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension instruction have the strongest evidence base. Explicit and systematic phonics instruction is most effective when carefully constructed and coupled with developing teachers' skills. Fluency improves with repeated oral reading with feedback. Vocabulary is best taught through multiple methods with repeated exposure. Comprehension benefits from question answering, summarization, and understanding text structure. As decoding skills increase, linguistic competency accounts for more reading ability. The document also notes that older readers need support engaging with complex ideas, even if they cannot read independently, and that writing instruction benefits from self-regulation strategies and tools for planning