I gave my littlest a copy of Brave New World for Christmas and while I thought there was a pretty good chance she’d read it, I didn’t think she’d read it OG style.   I found that out because I came home from a work trip on Friday evening and found her sleeping on the…

When I was teaching 5th grade, I knew that I needed to support my students’ fluency, but I had no idea how to do it. I had some students who came into my classroom reading beautifully, with ease and comfort. Other students were still struggling to decode, requiring prompting with each challenging word. However, the majority…

I recently tackled Jane Eyre, the Bronte sisters having escaped my assigned and pleasure reading in high school and college. As an adult reader of the novel, I was struck how many of the principles of the science of reading that we describe in The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading influenced…