This podcast explorews the ins and outs of qualitative assessment in reading and examines the role of student sa=elf assessment and why it may be both lousy evaluation and terrific instruction.

This Blast from the Past provides specific explanations of how to teach students to summarize text.

This Blast from the Past provides specific explanations of how to teach students to summarize text.

This podcast explores how teachers should organize their classrooms to best teach reading and writing and criticizes some of the more popular approaches to this problem.

This episode explores the role of principals in the improvement of school reading achievement. These days all of the attention seems to be on literacy coaches, but their success depends heavily on the school principal. This episode explores what the research has to say about principals and reading.

Educators wonder what is the best way to monitor students' decoding progress. What are the pluses and minuses of using tests that have students reading nonsense words?

The idea of placing students in texts at their instructional level has always tried to provide students with some degree of challenge. The idea has been that kids won't learn from texts the can already read well. But is that level of challenge really beneficial?

A teacher asks about the value of digital text for reading instruction. The research says that neither children nor adults read digital text very well, so what role -- if any -- should digital text play in reading instruction? The answer might surprise you.

This episode answers a teacher's question about whether he should teach comprehension strategies or focus on student knowledge.

This episode explains ways that teachers can enable students to read text successfully for longer.