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Comprehension [Grades K-12]
The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading
- Douglas Fisher - San Diego State University, USA
- Nancy Frey - San Diego State University, USA
- Nicole Law
Corwin Literacy
Radically change the way students learn from texts, extending beyond comprehension to critical reasoning and problem solving.
Is your reading comprehension instruction just a pile of strategies? There is no evidence that teaching one strategy at a time, especially with pieces of text that require that readers use a variety of strategies to successfully negotiate meaning, is effective. And how can we extend comprehension beyond simple meaning?
Bestselling authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law propose a new, comprehensive model of reading instruction that goes beyond teaching skills to fostering engagement and motivation. Using a structured, three-pronged approach—skill, will, and thrill—students learn to experience reading as a purposeful act and embrace struggle as a natural part of the reading process. Instruction occurs in three phases:
- Skill. Holistically developing skills and strategies necessary for students to comprehend text, such as monitoring, predicting, summarizing, questioning, and inferring.
- Will. Creating the mindsets, motivations, and habits, including goal setting and choice, necessary for students to engage fully with texts.
- Thrill. Fostering the thrill of comprehension, so that students share their thinking with others or use their knowledge for something else.
Free resources
Create-Abilities Podcast: Improving Reading Comprehension with Dr. Douglas Fisher
Comprehension co-author Douglas Fisher discusses why teaching reading comprehension through individual, disconnected strategies isn't improving reading comprehension, and what to try instead.
3 Aspects of Comprehension Instruction
Co-authors of Comprehension Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey share three aspects of comprehension instruction that they believe are necessary to impact students’ thinking.
The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading Comprehension
Comprehension co-authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey discuss their three-part framwork to help students learn not just the meaning of texts, but gain motivation and purpose from them.
The Thrill of Accelerating Comprehension in Any Setting
In this webinar, co-authors of Comprehension Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law discuss how to motivate and engage your readers with a new, unifying framework for reading comprehension.
Dr. Douglas Fisher and Dr. Nancy Frey: Texts and Text Complexity
In this episode on the All About Literacy podcast, co-authors of Comprehension Dr. Doug Fisher and Dr. Nancy Frey talk about the connections between text selection, text complexity, disciplinary literacy, and adolescent learning.
The Sounds of Language
Please enjoy this complimentary excerpt from Comprehension. In this section, the authors discuss the importance of developing constrained foundational skills including phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, and phonics.
Introduction to Comprehension
In the Introduction from Comprehension by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law, they introduce a new model of reading comprehension instruction.
The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading Comprehension
Read this article published by ASCD in which Comprehension authors Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey present a three-pronged framework can help students not only learn meaning of texts, but also gain motivation and purpose from them.
The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Comprehending Content Area Texts
Read this article from ILA's "Literacy Across Disciplines" by Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey, authors of Comprehension. Inside, the authors discuss their vision for not only deepening students' understanding of complex texts, but energizing and inspiring students to read passionately.