Shanahan on Literacy

This podcast explores the importance of teaching prosody in reading and its relationship to comprehension. It discusses measuring prosody components and categorizing students based on their skills. Strategies for improving prosody include pausing, repeated reading, and phrase reading practice.

Exploring the meaning of linguistic comprehension in the simple view of reading, including its components and underlying skills, limitations, and importance for developing oral and written language skills in the classroom.

These days teachers are told to teach reading with complex text. However, while they might have complex text in their classrooms or in their lessons, their approaches may undermine the benefits of complex texts. This episode cautions teachers to avoid four of these common errors.