Supporting Readers as Texts Get More Complex with Luke Morin

Supporting Readers as Texts Get More Complex with Luke Morin

May 22, 2026 · 57 min

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Luke Morin discusses the challenges students face with complex texts and rethinking reading instruction.

Episode 252 What actually happens when students encounter a complex text? In this episode, we’re joined by Luke Morin to discuss his article "Wading Into the Deep End: What Reading Actually Requires When the Text Gets Hard." Luke shares a powerful classroom moment where students applied reading strategies before tackling a tough text and still couldn’t make sense of a single sentence. That experience led him to rethink what it really means to teach reading. In this conversation, we explore: W...

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