Podcast Episodes

What Elephants Can Teach Us About Reading Instruction

Season 23 Episode 27

The really big point is this: It’s the semantic connections that are most important, not orthographic, graphemic, or phonemic connections. When you encounter the words ‘elephant’ you don’t connect w…

Published on 7 months ago

What Elephants Can Teach Us About Reading Instruction

The really big point is this: It’s the semantic connections that are most important, not orthographic, graphemic, or phonemic connections. When you encounter the words ‘elephant’ you don’t connect w…

Published on 7 months ago

The 3 Q-ing Systems: What it Isn't and Is

Season 23 Episode 26

1. It’s not a strategy to teach students.

2. It’s not a pedagogical strategy that teachers use.

3. It doesn’t exclude phonics instruction.

4. It doesn’t encourage children to use picture clues to figure…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Metaphysicial Perspectives

Season 23 Episode 25

In his book, Global Mind Change (1989), Willis Harman describes three views of reality which he calls metaphysical perspectives. Metaphysical here refers to ontology or the question of the origins o…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Belief Systems and Mental Sets

Season 23 Episode 24

Why do we sometimes believe the unbelievable? Why is it our views are sometimes data-resistant? We like to think that reality determines our beliefs; however, at higher levels of belief systems, our …

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Being and Becoming Responsible Consumers of Educational Research

Season 23 Episode 23

There’s a difference between (a) reading research related to reading instruction and (b) reading what others have said about research related to reading instruction. It’s important to know the diffe…

Published on 8 months ago

The Psycholinguistic Guessing Game

Season 23 Episode 22

This is what Ken Goodman wrote in 1967:

“Reading is a psycholinguistic guessing game. It involves an interaction between thought and language. Efficient reading does not result from precis…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Whole Language and Evidence-Based Reading Instruction

Season 23 Episode 21

In 1967, Ken Goodman published an article in Reading Research Quarterly with the title` Reading: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game (Goodman, 1967). Here he applies Psycholinguistic Theory to the read…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Conversation with Claude Goldenberg

Season 23 Episode 20

This is a wonderful conversation that I had with Claude Goldenberg. He has different ideas about things but he is a delight to talk with.

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Interview with Joe Lockavitch

Season 23

This is an interview with Joe Lackavitch

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago