Hey listeners, it's Susan. Alongside my colleagues, Anna Torres and Eric Cross, I just participated in a fantastic webinar on building literacy across the curriculum. If you don't have the language of that content, it becomes a bottleneck for you no matter what language you speak. Our sister podcast, Beyond My Years is sharing the full recording in their feed.

Listen today in the Beyond My Years podcast feed. And some fun news to celebrate with all of you.

We just learned that Science of Reading the podcast won the podcast of the year in the education

category of the American Writing Awards.

We wouldn't be here without our listeners.

Thank you for your continued support.

I think there's an opportunity to move the whole profession forward

in thinking that our role is really about having rich text experiences that do enrich the lives of our students.

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

Seven months ago, we started this deep dive into comprehension,

and I'm so grateful to our listeners who have been part of this journey.

We've gotten so many great questions from you all throughout the season that we're closing

it out with another mailbag episode. Thanks to everyone who submitted questions. I wish we had

time to address every single one, but we're going to get to a handful of them today.

To help me out, I'm joined again by Dr. Nathaniel Swain, teacher, instructional coach, and

writer. You may remember that Dr. Swain joined the show last June to discuss his wonderful

book, harnessing the science of learning. And today, he's going to help us tackle your comprehension questions on everything from

oral language to comprehension strategies to memory.

Let's get right to it.

Dr. Nathaniel Swain, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you so much, Susan.

It's a great pleasure to be here always.

It is so fun because we are closing out season 10, which has been all about comprehension.

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