Shanahan on Literacy

There are scads of evaluative criteria for examining reading and English Language Arts programs aimed at elementary school kids. But what about ELA programs for use in the middle and high school? Wouldn't it be just as good for teachers to teach no...

The latest PISA scores reveal that reading achievement is still dropping for many populations of 15 year olds. This podcast explores what -- if anything -- can be done to reverse these ongoing aftereffects of the 2020 pandemic (yep, it is still wit...

This podcast explores the role that morphology instruction should play in the teaching of reading -- both in terms of decoding and comprehension -- and provides practical, research-based recommendations for how that teaching should proceed.

These days any reading program that doesn't include decodables will have a lot of trouble doing business. Research isn't particularly supportive of the use of these simplified beginning reading text, but it seems reasonable to provide kids with pra...

The Common Core emphasized the teaching of close reading. Many states have revised those standards. Should close reading still have a place in your classroom in reading comprehension instruction? This podcast explores what close reading is and why ...