Podcast Transcript
CARS & STARS Online is a digital reading program designed to turn every student into a proficient and capable reader, with advanced levels of reading comprehension. The core reading strategies that underpin the entirety of the CARS & STARS Online digital reading comprehension program form an underlying instructional framework that recurs throughout every level and provides consistency of understanding and instruction for students and teachers alike.
Each episode introduces one of the twelve strategies and discusses the role reading strategies can play in reading instruction and becoming a better reader, while offering some tips for using them with any text and giving you a practice run with answering questions about the strategy with a passage of text – just the way the students do in CARS & STARS Online! Each episode also discusses the role of the strategy in the wider world, outside of the program, while telling you about some of the many benefits of CARS & STARS Online.
The twelve reading strategies progress from simpler, lower-order thinking skills such as Finding the Main Idea and Recalling Facts and Details to more complex, higher-order concepts such as Identifying Author’s Purpose and Summarising. Initial questions determine students’ mastery of the text at a literal level, while later questions build on this understanding to get to the heart of their conceptual understanding. In this way, in every reading passage across every reading level, students are being asked to perform the same essential tasks – with their difficulty and complexity increasing as the student progresses through the reading levels.
These research-proven strategies, taken together, offer a complete recipe for increased student awareness of textual features and concepts, and provide a direct and understandable pathway to improving reading comprehension for every student.
Each episode of the podcast is designed to be short and to the point, giving you a quick overview of how reading strategies can improve reading, an introduction to the specific strategy itself and some information on the CARS & STARS Online program. Whether you listen to just one episode or the whole series, you’ll get a real insight into how this unique program works and how it can help you and your learners.
Our first episode will cover the first reading strategy, Finding the Main Idea.
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