We are continuing our segment of episodes addressing particular subject areas.

Building a strong reading program is more than helping students with dyslexia. How well is your school doing overall at shaping your students into adults who love reading, who can do it well, and who can enter deeply into their reading?

Drawing inspiration from Nehemiah where the law was rediscovered through distinct reading that gave the sense and caused the people to understand, Lyndon Hartman calls us to reevaluate our commitment to developing the essential craft of reading. Lyndon speaks from a background of teaching reading and literature in several different grades, working with reading curriculum, and most importantly speaks from a deep love of reading.

He outlines six area for us to evaluate:

1. Our teachers
2. curriculum
3. books
4. judgement concerning struggling readers
5. libraries
6. examples

Links

• This presentation was initially published as "Raising Readers” at: https://thedockforlearning.org/lecture/raising-readers/
• Other presentations from CASBI 2022: https://thedockforlearning.org/series/casbi/casbi-2022/
• Find more resources that support teaching and learning at https://thedockforlearning.org/