Shanahan on Literacy

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Should We Be Teaching Sight Vocabulary? Nov 11, 2023

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This podcast considers whether teachers should attempt to teach sight vocabulary, and if so, how is that best accomplished.

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My state is banning instructional practices... or, how to look like you are teaching effectively even if you are not Nov 04, 2023

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This teacher is concerned that her state is discouraging the use of guided reading, leveled readers and informal reading inventories. Tim Shanahan weighs in on the value of those practices in a classroom aimed at implementing the science of reading.

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Are Qualitative Assessment and Student Self-Assessment Useful in Reading Instruction? Sep 30, 2023

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This podcast explorews the ins and outs of qualitative assessment in reading and examines the role of student sa=elf assessment and why it may be both lousy evaluation and terrific instruction.

How to Teach Summarizing, Part I Sep 23, 2023

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This Blast from the Past provides specific explanations of how to teach students to summarize text.

How Should We Combine Reading and Writing? Sep 16, 2023

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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.

A Big Mistake in Reading Improvement Initiatives – Don’t Make This One Sep 09, 2023

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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 reading.

Which Should We Use, Nonsense Word Tests or Word ID Tests? Aug 26, 2023

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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?

Guided Reading and the Appropriate Level of Text Challenge Aug 19, 2023

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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?

Is Digital Text a Good Idea for Reading Instruction? Aug 05, 2023

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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.

Knowledge or Comprehension Strategies -- What Should We Teach? Jul 22, 2023

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This episode answers a teacher's question about whether he should teach comprehension strategies or focus on student knowledge.

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