Considering Running Records, and No, I Don’t Beat My Wife Anymore
I've argued against teaching reading at students' instructional levels. Does that mean that I'm against running records and informal reading inventories? What could such tests possibly provide if you aren't teaching with leveled books? This podcast will answer those questions and many more.
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What Role Should Pictures Play in Teaching Reading?
This podcast explores the role that pictures play in teaching decoding, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
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Disciplinary Literacy Goes to Elementary School
This podcast explains the nature of disciplinary literacy and lays out a description of what role it should play in the elementary school reading curriculum.
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Our Middle School Reading Scores are Dropping – Help!
Middle school reading scores are stagnant or dropping all over the country. What can we do about that? This podcast explores what a science of reading based response should look like. If you want to help upper elementary, middle school, and high school readers, please tune in!
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Rejecting Instructional Level Theory
This episode explores the idea of teaching students with leveled books at their so-called instructional reading levels. For 70+ years, educators have been told that this was the key to optimum amounts of learning. This podcast challenges that idea.
Timothy Shanahan is a renowned expert on the teaching of literacy. This podcast addresses practical issues in teaching students to read and to read better.
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