#12 Reading Mistake: Why It’s Time to Move Beyond Round-Robin Reading For decades, round-robin reading has been a familiar classroom routine. One student reads aloud while the rest of the…
#11 Reading Mistake: Fluent Does Not Mean Fast Have you ever listened to a student race through a passage only to realize they skipped words, ignored punctuation, and couldn’t tell…
Day 10: Why Guessing Words Isn’t Reading: Moving Beyond the Three-Cueing System Why is moving beyond the three-cueing system important? Well, if you’ve been teaching for a while, you’ve probably…
Day 9: Why Reading and Spelling Should Never Be Taught Separately Think back to how spelling was taught when you were in school. Every Monday, you received a list of…
Day 8: Why Waiting to Teach Morphology Is Holding Students Back Have you ever watched a student’s face light up when they suddenly realize that happy, unhappy, and happiness are…
Day 7: Why Teaching Syllable Patterns and Syllable Division Changes Everything for Struggling Readers Have you ever noticed that some students seem to do everything right when they’re reading short…
Day 6: Why Memorizing Sight Words Isn’t the Best Way to Build Strong Readers For decades, teachers have been encouraged to build strong readers by helping students memorize “sight words.”…
Day 5: Why Decodable Texts Matter More Than Leveled Readers for Beginning Readers One of the biggest changes in reading instruction over the past several years has been the growing…
Day 4: Why Some Students Freeze on Words They Should Be Able to Read Picture this: a student can identify every single sound in a word. Ask them in isolation…
Day 3: One Reading Mistake to Avoid This School Year: Misunderstanding What Phonics Really Is When you hear the word phonics, what comes to mind? For many educators, phonics is…
Day 2: The Reading Foundation You Can’t See: Why Phonemic Awareness Matters Yesterday, we talked about one of the biggest misconceptions in reading instruction: the idea that reading develops naturally…
This is day 1 of our 30 Reading Mistakes Teachers Were Never Taught to Avoid. What if I told you the biggest reading mistake happens before the first lesson, and…
