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What Are the Best Fluency Learning Targets? I Think My School is Overdoing It. | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
Many schools have adopted fluency learning targets based upon fluency norms. Recent research shows that students are able to comprehend text reasonably well eve
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January 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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What Are the Best Fluency Learning Targets? I Think My School Is Overdoing It.
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January 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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When Should Reading Instruction Begin? | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
If you would like to get into a good argument, tell someone when reading instruction should begin. I'm always surprised at how many people have an opinion on th
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January 24, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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When Should Reading Instruction Begin?
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January 24, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Curriculum | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
This podcast explores the unfortunate implications of confusing curriculum and instruction. Teachers would do better to distinguish those concepts and to coordi
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January 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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What Teachers Need to Know about Sentence Comprehension | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
For years, teachers were told that teaching English grammar had no impact on reading comprehension or quality of writing. A more recent substantial body of evid
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December 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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What Teachers Need to Know about Sentence Comprehension Revisited
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December 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Interesting preprint of research exploring kids' ability to read ~10K English words from Don Compton and company.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Literacy Charities for 2026 | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
Each year, Shanahan on Literacy identifies the highest rated national, regional, and international Literacy Charities. Find out which ones you want to help -- a
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December 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Literacy Charities for 2026
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December 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Won’t Challenging Texts Discourage Young Readers? | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
Research indicates that teaching reading at students'
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November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Won't Challenging Texts Discourage Young Readers?
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November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Whole Books or Excerpts? Which Does the Most to Promote Reading Ability?
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November 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Whole Books or Excerpts? Which Do the Most to Promote Reading Ability | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
Recently, there have been claims that reading achievement is being suppressed because schools are teaching reading with excerpts and other short pieces rather t
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November 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Children learn to read with books that are just right for them – but that might not be the best approach
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Children learn to read with books that are just right for them – but that might not be the best approach
Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help kids learn to read.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Don’t Confuse Reading Comprehension and Learning to Read (and to Reread) | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
Are we making our instructional decisions based upon comprehension data or learning data? Is our purpose to make sure that students gain immediate comprehension
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October 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Don't Confuse Reading Comprehension and Learning to Read (and to Reread)
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October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Considering Running Records, and No, I Don’t Beat My Wife Anymore | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
I've argued against teaching reading at students' instructional levels. Does that mean that I'm against running records and informal reading inventories? What c
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October 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Considering Running Records, and No, I Don't Beat My Wife Anymore
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October 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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What Role Should Pictures Play in Teaching Reading?
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September 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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What Role Should Pictures Play in Teaching Reading? | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
This podcast explores the role that pictures play in teaching decoding, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
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September 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Disciplinary Literacy Goes to Elementary School | Shanahan on Literacy | CoHost
This podcast explains the nature of disciplinary literacy and lays out a description of what role it should play in the elementary school reading curriculum.
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September 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM