Shannon and Mary wrestle with understanding the nature of the comprehension process.  They discuss ideas from the Blueprint for Reading Comprehension and Executive Skills and Comprehension to understand the different cognitive processes and executive functioning required for students to extract and construct meaning from texts.

RESOURCES MENTIONED DURING THE EPISODE

1. the Reading Comprehension Blueprint by Nancy Hennessy *Amazon affiliate link
2. Executive Skills and Reading Comprehension: A Guide for Educators by Kelly B. Cartwright *Amazon affiliate link
3. A Blueprint for Reading Comprehension webinar recording
4. A Comprehension Checkup webinar recording
5. excerpt from Chapter 1: the Reading Comprehension Blueprint
6. The Science of Reading Comprehension Instruction by Nell Duke
7. Webinar and other info from Nell Duke 
8. Reading Comprehension Orchestra
9. How do we teach the Language Comprehension strand of Scarborough's Reading Rope?
10. Don't Stop Teaching Comprehension-Just Embed it In Context (Natalie Wexler)
11. Does text structure instruction improve reading comprehension?
12. Reading for Meaning: Teaching Rubric
13. The Role of Background Knowledge in Reading Comprehension: A Critical Review
14.  Reading Rockets: Comprehension 101
15. Micro Comprehension Amplify
16. Cohesive devices
17. Common Lit Curriculum
18. Idaho Comprehension Routines
19. Shanahan blog:  Knowledge or Comprehension Strategies?

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