Reading Intervention for Adolescent Readers with Dr. Margaret Opatz and Sara Kocherhans

Reading Intervention for Adolescent Readers with Dr. Margaret Opatz and Sara Kocherhans

How can secondary educators support adolescent readers to become strong readers of complex texts? In today's episode, Matt Sroka talks with Dr. Margaret Opatz and Sara Kocherhans about their work investigating multicomponent reading intervention in order to improve adolescents reading achievement. This conversation stems from their article “Using a supplemental, multicomponent reading intervention to increase adolescent readers' achievement”. 

Margaret Opatz, Ph.D., is a Reading Research Scientist at Capti, an edtech company, where she leads literacy initiatives. Margaret is a former K-12 teacher, reading interventionist, and Equity Coach. She specializes in foundational reading skills, covering the developmental stages of both young and adolescent readers, as well as effective teaching methods and strategies for addressing reading difficulties. Margaret is dedicated to advancing reading interventions and assessments to support learners of all backgrounds. 

Sarah Kocherhans is a PhD student in the Literacy, Language, and Learning program at the University of Utah. She works as a reading interventionist at the University of Utah Reading Clinic, where she researches and implements reading interventions for elementary and secondary students. Sarah's background is in the elementary classroom as a 3rd-grade teacher, where she first discovered her passion for remediating reading difficulties in developing readers. Through her work, she is dedicated to improving reading instruction for students of all ages.

Resource:

“Using a supplemental, multicomponent reading intervention to increase adolescent readers' achievement”.