diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/api/common/extHostTerminalShellIntegration.ts b/src/vs/workbench/api/common/extHostTerminalShellIntegration.ts
index bd6b71abe510..cf9b53d6dea2 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/api/common/extHostTerminalShellIntegration.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/api/common/extHostTerminalShellIntegration.ts
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ class InternalTerminalShellExecution {
 			get cwd(): URI | undefined {
 				return that.cwd;
 			},
-			readData(): AsyncIterable<string> {
+			read(): AsyncIterable<string> {
 				return that._createDataStream();
 			}
 		};
diff --git a/src/vscode-dts/vscode.proposed.terminalShellIntegration.d.ts b/src/vscode-dts/vscode.proposed.terminalShellIntegration.d.ts
index be2310eb230d..7e58c746cad8 100644
--- a/src/vscode-dts/vscode.proposed.terminalShellIntegration.d.ts
+++ b/src/vscode-dts/vscode.proposed.terminalShellIntegration.d.ts
@@ -35,14 +35,12 @@ declare module 'vscode' {
 		 * @example
 		 * // Log all data written to the terminal for a command
 		 * const command = term.shellIntegration.executeCommand({ commandLine: 'echo "Hello world"' });
-		 * const stream = command.readData();
+		 * const stream = command.read();
 		 * for await (const data of stream) {
 		 *   console.log(data);
 		 * }
 		 */
-		// TODO: read? "data" typically means Uint8Array. What's the encoding of the string? Usage here will typically be checking for substrings
-		// TODO: dispose function?
-		readData(): AsyncIterable<string>;
+		read(): AsyncIterable<string>;
 	}
 
 	/**