{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Reading Inspires by Reading Is Fundamental","title":"Reading Inspires! with Dr. Geoffrey Borman","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2237,"description":"About This Episode\nDr. Erin Bailey talks with Dr. Geoffrey D. Borman, Alice Wiley Snell Endowed Professor at Arizona State University, about what happens when children have sustained access to books they can choose, enjoy, and take home. Borman shares the research behind a five-year randomized trial in high-poverty elementary schools and explains how book access can support reading practice, motivation, and achievement.\nThe conversation connects evidence to action for schools, families, nonprofits, and policymakers. They discuss summer learning loss, the importance of choice and relevance, the role of a home library, why multi-year book distribution matters, and what researchers still need to learn about the literacy experiences that happen after books go home.\nWhat You’ll Learn\nWhy access to books can help interrupt reading loss during out-of-school months.\nHow reading volume, choice, and personal relevance can reinforce motivation and literacy growth.\nWhat a five-year randomized trial found when students received books over multiple years.\nWhy sustained, scalable book distribution can complement more intensive interventions.\nWhat schools, literacy organizations, and policymakers should consider when designing book-access programs.\nChapters\n0:00 — Reading Inspires introduction\n0:42 — Dr. Geoffrey Borman and the case for book access\n1:45 — From summer learning loss to literacy research\n6:04 — Access, ownership, choice, and reading achievement\n12:49 — Why study book ownership with a randomized trial?\n20:26 — The five-year book-distribution intervention\n23:13 — Achievement gains and a scalable intervention\n27:20 — What happens when books go home?\n31:34 — Replication, language, and future research\n33:23 — Turning research into literacy action\n35:13 — What does reading inspire for Dr. Borman?\n36:53 — Closing\nResources\nBernie’s Book Bank: Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial — Background on the randomized trial and literacy impact discussed in this episode....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PLM71TVYaKrIK0b-G2NoWp7Xdi0RdKxkYAKLXdYb2tA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NjQz/ZTdmZTE2ODA3OGJh/ZmM5NDkyMmZkNjI3/OWJkMy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}