The Fidelity of Delivery Is Incredibly Important

The authors of Thinking Reading: What Every Secondary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading, James and Dianne Murphy, join Melissa and Lori to discuss secondary struggling readers. Where do secondary educators start with struggling students? Put simply, there are two parts to intervention: learning and practice (for automaticity). Keeping those in mind, target what students need to know, explicitly teach and practice, and keep it manageable and motivating. 

Related Episodes: 

• Ep. 90: Improving Reading for Older Students with David Liben Part 1
• Ep. 91: Improving Reading for Older Students with David Liben Part 2 

Resources 

• Thinking Reading: What Every Secondary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading by James and Dianne Murphy

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