Podcast Transcript
Hi there, you’re listening to the Bright Islands Complete Comprehension podcast. This is your host Larry from Bright Islands Education. Bright Islands CoCo, also known as Bright Islands Complete Comprehension, is an innovative digital reading program aimed at empowering every student to become skilled and accomplished readers, mastering advanced levels of reading comprehension.
The core reading strategies that underpin the entirety of the Bright Islands CoCo 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.
In each episode, we’ll embark on a thrilling journey through one of the twelve strategies, highlighting its significance in reading instruction and enhancing one’s reading abilities.
The podcast provides helpful suggestions on utilising these strategies with any text and allows you to practice answering questions related to the strategy by examining a thoughtfully chosen passage similar to how students do in Bright Islands CoCo.
Additionally, each episode delves into the broader application of the strategy beyond the program, while shedding light on the numerous advantages of Bright Islands CoCo.
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 Bright Islands CoCo 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.
In our upcoming episode, we will delve into the first reading strategy called "Finding the Main Idea." If you're eager to discover more about Bright Islands CoCo subscriptions and how they can enhance children's academic performance, or if you want to stay updated on our latest podcast releases, you can subscribe to us or sign up for a free trial at www.brightislands.com. By doing so, you'll become an essential part of your child's reading success.
At Bright Islands Education, we are dedicated to nurturing brilliant minds and fostering a passion for learning, all with the goal of creating a future that inspires both educators and students alike. Thank you for tuning in, and we look forward to connecting with you again in our next episode.
