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…

  Ijeoma Duru’s visual guidance addresses the Transient Information Effect.   It’s no secret that students in the U.S. are falling behind in mathematics. Students are not only performing worse on national assessments like NAEP, they’re also falling behind the rest of the world on international assessments like the Program for International Assessment (PISA) as well…