{"podcast":{"title":"School of Practice","slug":"school-of-practice-7494269","podcast_index_feed_id":7494269,"rss_url":"https://wpvip.edutopia.org/feed/podcast/school-of-practice","website_url":"https://www.edutopia.org/","image_url":"https://wpvip.edutopia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/school-of-practice.png","author":"Edutopia","episode_count":22,"summary":"School of Practice, the first podcast from the team at Edutopia, brings you ready-to-use strategies to improve your teaching today. Join us for 15-minute episodes filled with smart, pedagogy-shifting advice—backed by research and test-driven by teachers just like you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T20:20:21.537972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269"},"episode":{"title":"Boosting Reading Comprehension for All Students","slug":"boosting-reading-comprehension-for-all-students","published_at":"2026-02-17T20:41:41+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269/boosting-reading-comprehension-for-all-students","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269","url":"https://www.edutopia.org/","audio_url":"https://wpvip.edutopia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/NinaP_ReadingComp_FINAL-withAD_-18LUFS.mp3","summary":"Maybe you’ve seen it in your classroom: Students who zip through chapters but then can’t tell you much about what they just read. To move those kids from fluency to sense-making, you’ve got to teach them the habits of good independent readers. In this episode of School of Practice, educator and literacy specialist Nina Parrish walks us through evidence-based strategies that keep kids focused as they tackle challenging texts—from pre-reading tactics that make vocabulary stick and activate prior knowledge, to active reading protocols that turn kids into engaged, metacognitive readers who are always asking themselves, “Did I really understand that?” Related resources: Learn more about this episode 5 Ways to Support Students Who Struggle With Reading Comprehension 5 Research-Backed Ways to Build Better Readers 4 Reading Strategies to Retire This Year (Plus 6 to Try Out!) How to Move From the ‘Main Idea’ to ‘Background Knowledge’ Slowing Down the Reading Process to Build Students’ Comprehension Skills Aiding Reading Comprehension With Post-its 4 Ways to Teach Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension Sweeping Round Robin Reading Out of Your Classroom Research: Promoting Fluency Through Challenge: Repeated Reading With Texts of Varying Complexity Research: A Longitudinal Randomized Trial of a Sustained Content Literacy Intervention from First to Second Grade: Transfer Effects on Students’ Reading Comprehension Research: Effects of a Read Aloud Intervention on First Grade Student Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, and Language Proficiency Research: Understanding Specific Reading Comprehension Deficit: A Review Research: The Effect of Mandatory Reading Logs on Children’s Motivation to Read","meta_description":"Maybe you’ve seen it in your classroom: Students who zip through chapters but then can’t tell you much about what they just read. To move those kids from…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1166,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/school-of-practice-7494269/episodes/boosting-reading-comprehension-for-all-students/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/school-of-practice-7494269/boosting-reading-comprehension-for-all-students.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}