by Erica Woolway At a workshop in Fayette County, GA today, I had the pleasure of showing several rockstar teachers (BreOnna Tindall in Denver, Jaime Johnson in Gwinett, Christine Torres in Massachusetts) work their magic with our Reading Reconsidered Curriculum and I was reminded once again by what a gift it is for teachers and students…
TLAC is excited to share our newest Plug and Plays that were authored, along with this blog post, by our colleague Alonte Johnson-James. The biggest barrier to students’ comprehension is often word knowledge or vocabulary. The biggest barrier to teachers’ abilities to support students is often understanding the best approach(es) to use in helping students to…
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…