Ep. 146: Reading Comprehension is Not a Skill with Robert Pondiscio
Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), asserts that reading comprehension is NOT a skill. Yes, good readers use reading skills and strategies to make meaning. But good readers also have a robust knowledge base. There is strong evidence to support knowledge building ELA curriculum, but we continue to wonder about what knowledge, whose knowledge, and how much?
Resources
- Recht & Leslie Baseball Study
- Wanted: A Science of Reading Comprehension movement | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Reading comprehension is not a “skill” | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Why doesn’t increasing knowledge improve reading achievement? Tim Shanahan
- Ep. 124 Innovative Assessment with the Louisiana Assessment Team Melissa and Lori Love Literacy podcast
- Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch
- What Reading Does for the Mind Cunningham and Stanovich
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