An excellent article from October 2015 which helps explain the importance of ensuring our classroom teachers are prepared to explicitly teach reading skills.
“But the 50 percent who need direct instruction need first to learn how to decode, or be able to match the sounds of letters to print letters in order to form words. Teaching the whole class the basics of decoding will not damage the students who are already reading (Cutting said some research suggests that it might actually make their reading stronger).”