S10 E1: The (not so) Simple View of Reading, with Wesley Hoover, Ph.D.

Science of Reading: The Podcast

Amplify Education

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Susan Lambert is joined by Wesley Hoover, a psycholinguist at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss the Simple View of Reading and how it can serve as the basis for our understanding of comprehension. Wesley digs into all the complexities of this model—which is only simple at a high level—including the meaning of language comprehension vs. reading comprehension, the impact of word recognition, and using the simple view to identify st...

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0:00.0	Now's your chance to dive even deeper into comprehension with me and other literacy experts during our upcoming Science of Reading webinar week.
0:10.0	Comprehension Connections, building the bridge between reading and understanding.
0:15.0	Starting September 29th, we're hosting daily hour-long webinars to show you how to help your students
0:22.5	build the bridge between reading and understanding. We'll explore comprehension and knowledge
0:28.2	building, comprehension measurement, comprehension in middle school, and more. Find out more
0:34.9	information on each session and save your seat for free at amplify.com
0:40.9	slash fall S-O-R webinars.
0:46.5	The only way you get to strong reading comprehension is through strong word recognition and strong language comprehension.
0:57.8	This is Susan Lambert and welcome to season 10 of Science of Reading the podcast from Amplify.
1:04.3	By now, you've probably heard that this season is going to be all about comprehension.
1:10.7	We've been exploring the foundations of comprehension on recent episodes today. This season is going to be all about comprehension.
1:11.0	We've been exploring the foundations of comprehension on recent episodes, but now we're going deep.
1:17.7	On upcoming episodes, we'll explore the cognitive processes underlying comprehension.
1:23.5	We're going to have entire episodes devoted to different factors that contribute to comprehension.
1:29.7	We're going to really unpack the cutting edge research on comprehension assessment.
1:34.3	And along the way, we'd love to tackle your comprehension-related questions too.
1:39.9	So you can always submit your questions for me and our expert guests at Amplify.com slash SOR mailbag.
1:49.6	For this kickoff episode to our season on comprehension, I wanted to specifically explore the simple view of reading.
1:58.4	I want to start with a simple view of reading because it is, it's an elegant
2:02.5	model to talk about the capacities that a proficient reader or somebody that has great reading
2:08.8	comprehension needs to have. We want to make sure when we're talking about comprehension,
2:13.4	that we have this reminder that it's impacted by word recognition as well as by language comprehension.
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