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How to Teach Summarizing, Part I
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
This Blast from the Past provides specific explanations of how to teach students to summarize text.
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How to Teach Summarizing, Part I
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
This Blast from the Past provides specific explanations of how to teach students to summarize text.
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How Should We Combine Reading and Writing?
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
This podcast explores how teachers should organize their classrooms to best teach reading and writing and criticizes some of the more popular approaches to this problem.
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A Big Mistake in Reading Improvement Initiatives – Don’t Make This One
SEPTEMBER 09, 2023
This episode explores the role of principals in the improvement of school reading achievement. These days all of the attention seems to be on literacy coaches, but their success depends heavily on the school principal. This episode explores what the research has to say about principals and rea...
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Which Should We Use, Nonsense Word Tests or Word ID Tests?
AUGUST 26, 2023
Educators wonder what is the best way to monitor students' decoding progress. What are the pluses and minuses of using tests that have students reading nonsense words?
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Guided Reading and the Appropriate Level of Text Challenge
AUGUST 19, 2023
The idea of placing students in texts at their instructional level has always tried to provide students with some degree of challenge. The idea has been that kids won't learn from texts the can already read well. But is that level of challenge really beneficial?
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Is Digital Text a Good Idea for Reading Instruction?
AUGUST 05, 2023
A teacher asks about the value of digital text for reading instruction. The research says that neither children nor adults read digital text very well, so what role -- if any -- should digital text play in reading instruction? The answer might surprise you.
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Knowledge or Comprehension Strategies -- What Should We Teach?
JULY 22, 2023
This episode answers a teacher's question about whether he should teach comprehension strategies or focus on student knowledge.
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Reading Stamina -- How Best to Divide Text for Classroom Discussion
JULY 15, 2023
This episode explains ways that teachers can enable students to read text successfully for longer.
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Can We Really Teach Prosody and Why Should We Want To?
JULY 08, 2023
The idea of teaching text reading fluency is widely accepted, but most of this work tends to focus on accuracy and automaticity. What about prosody or expression? This episode explores the research that explains the importance of prosody in reading development and examines the most effective w...
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