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Shanahan on Literacy

Timothy Shanahan

Timothy Shanahan is a renowned expert on the teaching of literacy. This podcast addresses practical issues in teaching students to read and to read better.

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All Episodes

14:59

Rejecting Instructional Level Theory

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/08/23

This episode explores the idea of teaching students with leveled books at their so-called instructional reading levels. For 70+ years, educators have been told that this was the key to optimum amounts of learning. This podcast challenges that idea.

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14:59

Modeling in Fluency Instruction

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/08/09

"Experts" make lots of recommendations about how to teach oral reading or text reading fluency. One of those recommendations is that it is important to "model" oral reading for the students. The research is nearly silent on this issue, so what makes sense?

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13:01

What is the Science of Reading?

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/08/02

This episode explores what it meant by the term "science of reading" and it distinguishes that idea from a "science of reading instruction." The issue here has to do with what kind of evidence should be used to determine how best to teach reading.

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15:29

Print-to-Speech or Speech-to-Print? That is the Question

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/07/26

This episode explores the effectiveness of Orton-Gillingham approaches to the teaching of phonics as well as which method is best for facilitating growth in decoding -- teaching students connect letters to sounds or sounds to letters.

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18:47

How to do the Best Benchmark Testing?

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/07/12

This podcast explores the pluses and minuses of benchmark reading testing, including considerations of test frequency, time of day the tests are administered and who proctors the tests.

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9:40

My Child Will Only Read Graphic Novels. Help!

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/06/28

Many kids only want to read graphic novels. Is that a problem? This podcast explores the pluses and minuses of graphic novels when it comes to learning to read. It includes practical suggestions for parents and teachers.

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18:07

Should Reading Be Taught Whole Class or Small Group?

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/06/14

There is a long history in reading education of promoting small group instruction. This podcast explores what the research has to say about the benefits -- or lack thereof -- of small group teaching and whether it is such a good idea afterall.

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10:08

Encouraging Summer Reading

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/06/07

This podcast explains why summer reading practice is so important and provides 13 recommendations for ways to encourage children to read when the schools are closed.

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14:32

Autism and Reading Part 2: Lessons to be Learned from...

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/05/24

Children on the autism spectrum (ASD) present some interesting challenges when it comes to reading instruction. Part 1 of this series considered the difficulties that these children may have with decoding -- despite the fact that there are a surprising number who have hyperlexia, especially good decoding ability. However, most of these students struggle more with comprehension than decoding and this podcast explores what their comprehension problems tend to be and how they might be addressed.

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14:40

Autism and Reading Part 1: Lessons to be Learned from...

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/05/10

More and more kids are diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum and this challenge has important consequences for learning to read. This podcast explores the implications this has for teaching reading -- both to kids on the spectrum and to everyone else.

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16:38

How to Teach Writing Fluency

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/05/03

These days there is much interest in reading fluency as educators have become aware of the important contribution it makes to reading proficiency. However, writing fluency is not accorded the same attention -- undermining writing development and what it can contribute to learning to read. This podcast explores writing fluency -- what it is, why it matters, and most importantly how to teach it successfully.

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23:40

The Whats, Hows, and Whys of Teaching Sight Vocabulary

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/04/19

This podcast explores a series of question about sight vocabulary, its role in reading development, and how it is best dealt with in the classroom.

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14:13

Is Morphology Training Better Than Phonics Instruction?

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/04/12

This podcast explores the relationship between phonics teaching and morphology instruction. Some authorities suggest that morphology should replace phonics, while others see it as a supplement to phonics that should be delayed until decoding is well in hand.

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16:51

Are We Teaching Reading Comprehension Part 2

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/03/29

In the last episode, we examined the research on comprehension instruction and how it has changed. In this episode we are exploring the kinds of instruction that should count when it comes to teaching students to comprehend what they read. It gets into issues of knowledge, strategies, questioning routines, and language.

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12:52

Are We Teaching Comprehension? Part 1

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/03/15

There is new research into how much reading comprehension student are receiving. To carry out such studies requires the researchers to define what they mean by comprehension instruction... and that's where it gets interesting. This first of a two-part podcast explores what it means to teach reading comprehension in the Science of Reading era.

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9:17

Accommodating Reading Comprehension with Listening:...

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/03/01

Many children suffer from difficulties learning to read and sometimes these challenges take the form of disabilities. The question is should accommodations be provided to these students by replacing listening comprehension with reading comprehension, if we know they will have trouble decoding. This podcast considers the value of such accommodations when it comes to reading.

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12:37

On Eating Elephants and Teaching Syllabication

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/02/22

Should we be teaching syllabication? Some schemes for this are pretty time consuming. Is that kind of investment worthwhile? And, if we do teach students to break words into syllables what is the best way to do that and what should we teach them? This podcast will explore these issues.

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13:36

Is Print Awareness Part of the Science of Reading?

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/02/08

This podcast explores the role that print awareness plays in learning to read. It sorts out the skills that matter from those that do not and explains how the essential ones can be best taught.

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12:17

My Problem with Teaching Text Organization

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/01/25

There is strong research that supports the idea of teaching students to recognize and use text structure to understand and remember the information from text. Accordingly, reading comprehension lessons often focus on teaching story structure and multiple expository text structures, too. But are those really always the best organizational plans to focus on. This podcast argues for some more content focused approaches.

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8:50

8 Ways to Help Kids Read Complex Text

Shanahan on Literacy ·

2025/01/18

For years, teachers were told to teach reading at children's "instructional levels." However, research has not been especially kind to this idea, showing either that this adjustment provides no benefit or that it actually is harmful. So teachers are increasingly trying to teach students to read with grade level text. This podcast provides some useful advice on how to do that successfully.

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