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This is Susan Lambert and welcome to a special edition of Science of Reading the podcast from Amplify,

where the science of reading lives.

Before we can appropriately change our children's reading behavior in this

nation, we must help adults change their behavior. This is sound from a 2001 press conference

hosted by the U.S. Department of Education. It's about a report on fourth grade reading levels,

and the man speaking is Dr. Reed Lion.

Specifically, the results suggest that the converging evidence obtained from the research on how children learn to read,

why many kids have difficulties learning to read, and how teachers can best improve reading skills, has not been provided to the majority of our nation's

teachers and is not informing practice in the classroom. At the time, Dr. Lyon worked as the chief of the

child development and behavior branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

By that point, Dr. Lyon had spent years explaining to government officials and the public

the science of how children learn to read.

It is enormously complex. It doesn't occur naturally.

Teachers have to understand this complexity, have to understand how to present information

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