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…
Books are finally having their moment in the sun. In a series of recent articles, journalists have laid bare the frightening trend of the dwindling of books in American reading classes. The New York Times featured, short excerpts, a trend that is all too common in classrooms across the country. Others have argued that books…
I had the pleasure of presenting at Amplify’s “Science of Comprehension Symposium” on Friday. My topic was the often overlooked role of fluency as a bridge to comprehension. I showed some videos and I wanted to post them here with a few notes. First, this beautiful clip of Gabby Woolf reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case…