Reading teachers chat with Dr. Timothy Shanahan about how to quiet the noise within the literacy community and realize the MOST important things we should be doing for our learners according to the reading research. Listeners will find out what practices and activities they should prioritize to improve their students' reading achievement.

Reading teachers talk with Melissa Taylor from ImaginationSoup.net about the importance of nonfiction texts in a student's reading diet. They chat about the flexible comprehension strategies students need to organize the info gathered from nonfiction and text features and structures that are specific to nonfiction texts. Listeners can find out how to help their students read NF texts.