Video shared with permission by Dr. Sam Bommarito, author of Dr. Sam 7, Seeking Ways to Grow Proficient, Motivated, Lifelong Readers & Writers: https://doctorsam7.blog/2022/07/09/an-interview-with-peter-afflerbach-about-his-new-book-teaching-readers-not-reading-conducted-by-dr-sam-bommarito/ 

Dr. Peter Afflerbach (NAEP Reading Framework Committee and Research Fellow of the American Educational Research Association) challenges the idea that there is a single “science of reading.” In his experience as a K-12 classroom teacher, remedial reading teacher, university reading clinic director, and reading researcher, Dr. Afflerbach understands that multiple reading strategies and skills are essential for students’ reading success. Those strategies and skills are not all that developing readers need! They need motivation and engagement, self-efficacy, metacognition, self-regulation, and healthy attributions–each of which represents a “science” and has a robust research base. Each is given full consideration when we teach readers, not reading.

In this interview, Dr. Sam Bommarito discusses Dr. Peter Afflerbach’s new book, Teaching Readers (Not Reading). “I think my readers will find this book to be a treasure trove of ideas about how to teach reading in a way that will promote the creation of lifelong readers (and writers!),” he shares. From the sciences of reading to looking outside strategies and skills, this valuable conversation is one you don’t want to miss.

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