How should teachers understand text comprehension, and what are effective practices to facilitate comprehension, particularly for adolescents across all content areas?

Letty Martinez, PhD discusses her research on supporting adolescents and multilingual students as they engage with and comprehend text. In this episode, you will learn about

• Comprehension through a multicomponent lens 
• Challenges and opportunities for adolescent learners
• Effective instructional approaches that facilitate comprehension and content literacy
• Implications for multilingual learners

This episode is a valuable resource for all educators, especially those working with adolescents, emergent bilingual and multilingual students, in order to make text more accessible and engaging and improve student comprehension.

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This episode marks a special LEAD on READ episode with Dr. Jacqueline Rodriguez, CEO of the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD). Dr. Rodriguez reflects on her leadership in education and advocacy, highlighting a lifelong learning journey. She shares NCLD’s vision to scale and expand advocacy efforts for people with learning disabilities in schools, professional spaces, and communities throughout their lives and across the world. In this episode, we discuss the following leadership insights:

• Maintaining curiosity and courage to deepen your growth and learning as a leader
• Encouraging openness to change for personal and organizational transformation
• Ensuring that spaces are inclusive and equitable for all people to thrive personally and professionally

This episode offers valuable leadership lessons and dives into the future of NCLD’s advocacy work for all people with learning disabilities on a global scale.

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Dr. Steve Graham, renowned expert in writing instruction, joins READ for a timely discussion on effective writing instruction, the reading-writing connection, and the role of technology and AI on writing education. In this episode, you will learn about

• approaches to reading and writing instruction through an integrated lens.
• considerations for instructional planning across content areas.
• multiple strategies for effective writing instruction.
• implications for assessing writing.
• expert insights on the role of technology and AI.

This episode is filled with knowledge and practical applications for any educator, leader, and caregiver on building your child’s writing success.

 Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.org and the Episode #57 homepage for host Danielle Gomez's top bookmarks and resources.

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Sara Hart, PhD, joins READ to discuss the role of genes and the environment on reading development and disabilities. Throughout her career, Dr. Hart has investigated child development through an interdisciplinary lens. In this episode, you will learn about Dr. Hart’s

•  studies with twins to understand individual development in reading and math with the goal to inform approaches to education and equity.
• role as co-PI of The Learning Disabilities Translational Science Collective, focused on translating research, scaling up scientific studies, bringing more stakeholders into the research process, and expanding data sharing practices.
• commitment to elevating other researchers, citing POWER, an organization dedicated to advocating for researchers who identify as women and non-binary in education and child development.

This episode is packed with research, insights, and entertaining stories that will resonate with educators, researchers, and advocates everywhere!

Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.org and the Episode #56 homepage for host Danielle Gomez's top bookmarks and resources.

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Dr. Sarah Woulfin, an expert on leadership and school reform, joins the READ Podcast for a LEAD on READ conversation, co-hosted by Dr. Danielle Gomez and Jamie Williamson. Dr. Woulfin outlines effective actions of leaders to enact school reform and shares her expertise on how to sustain change in education.

 In this episode, you will learn about

• curriculum coherence, capacity building, and conditions for effective change.
• key actions of leaders that facilitate support for educational initiatives.
• the infrastructural pillars needed to sustain reform.
• considerations for processes of data collection and analysis.

This episode provides insights for leaders at any level of an educational organization.

Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.organd the Episode #55 homepage for host Danielle Gomez's top bookmarks and resources.

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Colby Hall, PhD, shares her research on reading and language from kindergarten through adolescence. Dr. Hall, an assistant professor at University of Virginia, discusses her vast research collaborations spanning across areas of literacy, age groups, and language, providing a window into the research process and offering implications for classroom practice. In this episode, you will learn about

• the findings from a pilot study involving an integrated reading, writing, and language intervention for kindergarteners
• a current study that integrates professional development, technology, and literacy instruction for emergent bilingual students 
• an effective instructional approach developed to support adolescent literacy in content areas

Dr. Hall shares tangible insights and resources for classroom application for children at any age and ignites curiosity for further learning.

Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.organd the Episode #54 homepage for host Danielle Gomez's top bookmarks and resources.

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Neena Saha, PhD, joins READ for an illuminating and entrepreneurial discussion about translating research to practice. In this episode, Dr. Saha offers insights on 

• shifting how educators interface with research through an entrepreneurial lens.
• integrating and broadening the role of technology in sharing research.
• developing a systematic and explicit approach to the translation of research to practice.

Dr. Saha discusses opportunities and challenges for disseminating research more effectively and efficiently to teachers in all classrooms.

Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.org and the Episode #53 homepage for host Danielle Gomez's top bookmarks and resources.

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Join READ host Dr. Danielle Gomez as she offers a perspective on reading research from translation to implementation. She synthesizes key insights from READ guests in 2023, highlights current research from the broader community, and forecasts opportunities and challenges for the future of implementation of research in practice. In this episode, you will learn about

• the benefits of translating research in education.
• current frameworks that seek to broaden and deepen our understanding of reading development and difficulties through an equity lens.
• insights on implementing and scaling reading reform.

This episode is timely as we look ahead to both the translation and implementation of reading research and reform to benefit all learners.

Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.org and the Episode #52 homepage for host Danielle Gomez's top bookmarks and resources.

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Amy Elleman, PhD, joins the READ Podcast to discuss the evidence supporting reading comprehension development and implications for effective instruction. This episode builds upon previous READ conversations in conceptualizing comprehension as an integration of skills. In this episode, you will learn about

• the components and processes of reading comprehension.
• research frameworks applicable for educators of students at any age.
• evidence-based practices to promote comprehension.
• interventions for students who experience comprehension breakdowns.

Dr. Elleman offers feasible and applicable insights for further learning and classroom implementation for any educator.

Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.org and the Episode #51 homepage for host Danielle Scorrano's top bookmarks and resources.

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Sonia Cabell, PhD, joins the READ Podcast for the 50th episode! In this conversation, Dr. Cabell and Danielle discuss the integrated and interdependent nature of reading, oral language, background knowledge, and writing. Dr. Cabell cites her research on content-rich instruction and offers numerous effective practices for classroom instruction. Educators, bring a pen and your plan book as Dr. Cabell offers insights and resources for immediate classroom application.

Do you want to learn more from this episode or past READ episodes? Visit readpodcast.organd the Episode #50 homepage for host Danielle Scorrano's top bookmarks and resources.

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