Dr. Baker and Dr. Heidi Anne Mesmer discuss text complexity and the early grades
Posted 10/15/2012 12:01 AM
Dr. Baker and Dr. Chauncey Monte-Sano discuss writing prompts that help adolescents think as historians
Posted 10/01/2012 12:05 AM
Listen to bi-weekly podcasts (available 1st and 3rd Mondays) of interviews with literacy researchers as they discuss the implications of their research. Teachers, parents, principals, and policymakers are invited to listen and discuss ways to improve literacy instruction.
Authors: Drs. Baker, Kuby and Vander Zanden
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This season, we celebrate nearly 2.5 million requests by featuring the most popular podcasts of 2010-2012
September 4
How offline reading, online reading, and prior knowledge can help predict students’ abilities to understand what they read online
Dr. Julie Coiro
September 18
Vocabulary Instruction: How Students Approach New Words
Dr. Jocelyn Folk
October 2
Using children’s literacy skills to differentiate reading comprehension instruction
Dr. Carol Connor
October 16
Examining the validity of oral reading fluency assessments
Dr. Sheila Valencia
November 6
Using categories to teach vocabulary to preschoolers
Dr. Susan Neuman
November 20
Black-White Literacy Gap, Adult Literacy, and Implications
Dr. Dale Cohen
December 4
Reading First in Florida: Five Years of Improvement
Dr. Barbara Foorman
December 18
Gleaning insights from historians, mathematicians, and chemists about how they read within their disciplines
Dr. Cynthia Shanahan
What a meaningful dialogue. Thank you for sharing; I hope policy makers listen. …
I found the 4 ways to access what students are thinking while reading and what st…
Our unpublished on-line K-1 teacher study found that kids can name randomly prese…
what a lengthy and in depth article but full of useful information…
I appreciate and respect the fact that Dr. Coiro is a parent herself, and is able…
Interesting approach to reading online. …
Thanks for sharing!…
Great article . Will definitely apply it to my site…
Students are being asked to complete tasks rather than focus on the way they thin…
Very cool…