122 –Part 1- Reading Comprehension Loses Out In The Classroom‼️ Language Is The Real MVP—Backed by Evidence!

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This episode might challenge everything you once believed!

In this evidence-grounded episode, we kick off with Jill Barshay’s March 2025 Hechinger Report deep-dive—“Proof Points: Reading Comprehension in the Classroom” (read it here)—which shows teachers spend under 25 percent of their reading block on genuine comprehension work and almost zero time on text-based talk.

Doug Petersen and Trina Spencer—classroom teachers turned education scientists and founders of Language Dynamics Group—use those “proof points” as a launchpad to share why they walked away from one-size-fits-none interventions and built something better:

❤️ Their evidence-first origin: witnessing multilingual and economically diverse learners get lost in decoding drills led them to found tools (CUBED, PEARL, DYMOND, Story Champs®) rooted in solid research evidence—and designed to be Implementation Ready, not extra paperwork.

🧠 Research you can see: unpacking Scarborough’s Reading Rope alongside Beck & McKeown’s vocabulary studies, they demonstrate how just minutes of data-backed, teacher-led discussions unlock deeper thinking, richer text connections, and measurable comprehension gains.

If you’ve ever stared at comprehension questions and wondered why they flop—or if you’re craving talk strategies backed by hard evidence that actually fit into a busy teaching day—this episode is your MVP playbook. Tune in and let language—and real, research-driven evidence—l

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