by Sarah Engstrom, Associate Director of Curriculum and School Support at TLAC Reading research identifies a lack of fluency as a significant and pervasive barrier to comprehension—at all grade levels. Reading aloud regularly is the single most effective way to improve fluency. Reading aloud with students is also social—it brings the text to life and allows…
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…
Reading aloud both to and WITH students is one of the most important things teachers can do in reading class. Doing so helps build accuracy and automaticity in a way that silent reading can’t. And when students are socialized to read with a bit of prosody, to capture the intended meaning in their expression–we get…
My colleagues Erica Woolway, Sadie McCleary, Hannah Solomon and I have been working on the TLAC 3.0 Field Guide to support the new 3.0 Teach Like a Champion this fall. It’ll be out in a few months, but it’s a bit different from previous Field Guides in that it focuses on “keystone” videos–longer clips of 8…