Reading Mistake #30: Teaching Every Student the Same Way Over the past 30 days, we’ve explored some of the most common reading mistakes that can unintentionally slow student progress. We’ve…
#29 Reading Mistake: Looking for One Magic Strategy After 28 days of exploring the most common reading mistakes, you may have noticed something. None of these topics stand alone. We’ve…
#28 Reading Mistake: Teaching Rare Phonics Patterns Too Early A systematic phonics scope and sequence is much more than a checklist of concepts to teach. The order in which phonics…
#27 Reading Mistake: Letting Assessments Determine What You Teach Assessments are an essential part of effective reading instruction. They help you measure student learning and can provide valuable information to…
#26 Reading Mistake: Teaching Exceptions Before Students Understand the Rule One of the biggest advantages of the English language is that it is far more predictable than many people realize.…
#25 Reading Mistake: Moving On Before Mastery Slowing down often helps students move faster. One of the most common reading mistakes I see is moving students to the next skill…
#24 Reading Mistake: Correcting Errors Instead of Analyzing Them for Instruction One of the biggest shifts teachers can make is learning to see student errors as valuable information rather than…
#23 Reading Mistake: Doing All the Thinking for the Student One of the greatest gifts we can give students is the ability to solve reading problems on their own. Yet…
#22 Reading Mistake: Using Dictation As A Spelling Test When you hear the word dictation, what comes to mind? For many educators, it sounds like a spelling test. The teacher…
#21 Reading Mistake: Skipping Dictation When many people hear the word dictation, they immediately think of a weekly spelling test. The teacher reads a list of words. Students write them…
#20 Reading Mistake: Neglecting Oral Language and Listening Comprehension Imagine a student who reads every word in a passage correctly. Their decoding is accurate. Their reading is smooth. Yet when…
#19 Reading Mistake: Expecting Strong Comprehension Before Decoding Is Automatic One of the most common misconceptions in reading instruction is that comprehension and decoding are separate skills that develop independently.…
