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…
Doug recently got a note from a teacher in Texas who had read our recent book, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading, and was especially interested in making social studies classes more writing intensive. This teacher was curious that we don’t show many graphic organizers in the book, unless blank…
In mid-March we’ll be in Denver leading a workshop on reading. The workshop will incorporate content for our new book, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading. One of the themes of the book is bringing the text back into the center of the classroom. When we read together, from…