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Podcast: Teaching Literacy Podcast
Episode: Reading Comprehension Research: Schema, Simple View of Reading, and the Rope [Comprehension Instruction Part 1/3]
Description: How do you teach reading comprehension?
Perhaps that is question you, or your colleagues, have asked. It’s a legitimate question; reading comprehension is very complex, with a lot of moving pieces. Further, there’s a lot of ongoing conversation about how reading comprehension instruction should (or should not) look like.
But, what does research say about reading comprehension instruction? The next three episodes will explore reading comprehension research, and what it means for your instruction.
First up, this episode outlines three popular theoretical models of reading comprehension; schema theory (Anderson, 1984); the Simple View...