S5 E12 Building Vocabulary
Reading teachers chat about best activities to build students' vocabularies. They share how their vocabulary instruction has evolved over the years to help students the most. In the chat, they reference ideas form Bringing Words to Life by Isabel Beck.
S5 E9 Simple View of Reading and Beyond
Reading teachers chat about the Simple View of Reading and how that affected reading instruction in the 1980s and 1990s. Then they discuss how the research following the Simple View of Reading has shifted and become more defined. This conversation provides context to reading research over the last few decades and helps reading teachers understand how Science of Reading discoveries impact classroom instruction.