A veteran educator reflects on a long-held question: When do we actually teach kids to read? From well-meaning but misguided advice in college and early teaching to a powerful awakening through the science of reading, a current teacher assistant shares her personal journey towards understanding explicit literacy instruction and the joy of seeing students truly learn to read.

Hear one teacher’s journey into the science of reading and how she administered a nonsense word screener to determine if her students’ struggling reading behaviors were a result of not being able to decode.