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Toadys, Transaction, and Reading Instruction
Season 24 Episode 9
Toadys sometimes call themselves “consultants”. They promote methods and say things that just happen to coincide with the products and services bein…
9 months ago
The Ideology of Reading
Season 24 Episode 8
Despite having the word “science” in their title, the proposals put forth by the SoR are not grounded in science at all, but in pseudo-science, I-thi…
9 months ago
Forward to the Past: Writer Over to People
Season 24 Episode 7
One of the reasons why the Science of Reading people have been so successful is that they’ve been writing to the people over there. They’ve used sto…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Conversation with Daphne Russell
Season 24 Episode 6
This is a conversation with another master teacher, Daphne Russell
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Reading Wars and the Education Science Reform Act of 2002
Season 24 Episode 5
There never was a reading war. A war assumes there are two armies meeting on a field of battle. This didn’t happen. But there was a reading coup. …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Cognitive Science and Reading
Season 24 Episode 4
Neuroscience is a study of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, and neurons (NIH, 2025). The neuroscience of reading looks at how th…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Orthographic Mapping: Weak or Robust Theory?
Season 24 Episode 3
In this podcast, I try to make sense of orthographic mapping, a term invented by Linnea Ehri and introduced in Chapter 15 (Ehri, 2014). We’ll start…
10 months ago
Everybody Uses Direct Instruction For Reading
Season 24 Episode 2
The term “direct and explicit instruction” is often used to sell products or to persuade state legislators to make bad decisions. But everybody a…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Research to Support the Three-Cueing Systems
Season 24 Episode 1
Our big human brains have evolved to become very efficient predicting machines (Hawkins, 2004). They are constantly accessing multiple data sources …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Orton-Gillingham: Behind the Pretty Words
Season 23 Episode 29
The problem with Orton-Gillingham and similar for-profit products (Lindamood, Wilson Language Training, Barton System, etc.) is that they try to redu…
11 months ago