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UNDERSTANDING COMMONLY MISUNDERSTOOD TERMS AND CONCEPTS RELATED TO READING INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENTIONS
Season 6 Episode 6
There are eight terms related to reading instruction that are commonly misunderstood: (1) reading, (2) word recognition, (3) word identification, (4)…
5 years, 9 months ago
TOO MUCH STINK'N PHONICS
Season 6 Episode 5
Phonics is the ability to associate sounds with letters or letter patterns. Phonics is one of four ways used to identify individual words as we read.…
5 years, 9 months ago
ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT WHOLE LANGUAGE? YUP.
Season 6 Episode 4
In viewing online discussion groups and reading various articles related to reading instruction and struggling readers, it is clear that many believe…
5 years, 9 months ago
WRITING SHOULD BE PART OF READING INSTRUCTION
Season 6 Episode 3
After wide reading, writing is probably the next best thing you can use to help struggling readers. You can often hear beginning and emergent readers…
5 years, 9 months ago
THE LIMITATIONS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS FOR DIAGNOSING READING DIFFICULTIES
Season 5 Episode 8
Standardized tests are effective for describing how far students are from a mythical average. They are very ineffective in diagnosing the cause of re…
5 years, 9 months ago
THE SCIENCE, ART, AND CRAFT OF TEACHING - AND EXPERT TEACHERS HAVE FOUR TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE.
Season 6 Episode 2
The teacher is the most significant variable in determining how much learning takes place in any classroom. We must attend to this most significant …
5 years, 9 months ago
SOCIAL COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORY - APPLICATIONS
Season 6 Episode 1
This podcast explains and describes social cognitive learning theory and its applications. Social cognitive learning theory involves observing the b…
5 years, 9 months ago
RESPONDING TO TEXT AND WHY THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS ARE RIDICULOUS
Season 5 Episode 7
This podcast describes efferent and aesthetic responses to text. It explains how we should approach and respond to expository (informational) and nar…
5 years, 9 months ago
UNDERSTANDING READING FROM A COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE
Season 5 Episode 6
This podcast describes how our brain creates meaning with text from a cognitive perspective. The information processing model, sometimes called the s…
5 years, 9 months ago
HUMANISTIC LEARNING THEORY
Season 5 Episode 5
Psychologists Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are generally thought to be the founders of modern humanistic learning theory (DeCarvalho, 1991). Human…
5 years, 9 months ago