Hi listeners, it's Susan here. Just in time for the school year, I have a brand new resource to tell you about.

Science of Reading, a new teacher's guide. This free e-book gives you the critical information you need,

including a detailed breakdown of the reading rope and the 10 foundational science of reading principles.

It also provides key information on dyslexia, assessment,

serving multilingual learners, and so much more.

It's packed with beautiful diagrams,

a perfect compliment to the podcast if I do say so myself.

Download your science of reading guide at amplify.com.com slash S-O-R guide.

You know, the more linguistic skills and the more literate skills we have, the more opportunities we have.

It's as simple as that.

This is Susan Lambert, and welcome to Science of Reading the podcast from Amplify, where the

science of reading lives. This is episode two in our brand new mini-series exploring how the

science of reading serves multilingual and English learners. Last time, we kicked things off by examining how the education system has historically

let down this critical population.

And we also explored a powerful collaboration between researchers and advocates for both the science of reading and multilingual and English learners.

The result of that collaboration

was a joint statement which we started to unpack. This time we're focusing on the science

of language acquisition and our guest is one of the many co-signers of that historic joint statement,

Dr. Jim Cummins,

Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

On this episode, Dr. Cummins distills the research on how humans learned languages,

and he explains how that information can be applied in the classroom

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