S10 E3: Finding fluency at the heart of comprehension, with Doug Lemov

In this episode of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Susan Lambert is joined by Doug Lemov, former teacher and school principal, to discuss how teachers can identify when disfluency is actually the root cause for students’ struggles with comprehension—and what they can do about it. Using his new book, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading, to guide the discussion, Susan and Doug address building attention stamina, the argument for reading whole books, and the value of expressive read-alouds. Finally, Doug ends the episode asserting that humans are meant to live in community, and that a deeper level of comprehension is unlocked through deep empathic connection to text and the experience of reading with others. Resources: Read: The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading Watch: Gabby Woolf’s Dr. Jekyll Lesson and the Power of Reading Fluency Listen: ”Phonology as a settled science” Listen: ”The plea to preserve deep reading, with Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D.” Listen: ”Writing the way to better reading, with Judith Hochman, Ed.D.” Listen: ”The joy of reading aloud, with Molly Ness” Download: cComprehension 101 Bundle  “If you're not a fluent reader, you can't be a deep reader.”—Doug Lemov “The research is clear that when you start to read expressively externally, then your internal reading voice while reading silently is much more expressive and therefore infused with more meaning.”—Doug Lemov