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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: IMPROVING READING SKILLS WITH STRUGGLING TEENS (PART 1)
Description: When evaluating grades and test results, we take for granted that most high schoolers know how to read and look to other reasons to explain poor performance. But what if language comprehension and decoding skills really are the problem? In the first of a two-part series, Amy and Mike invited Erica Meltzer to share strategies for improving reading skills with struggling teens. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What is the Simple View of Reading? What are the major signs of a decoding problem? Why do so many reading problems in older...