Hi listeners, it's Susan here. Our sister podcast, Beyond My Years, just launched its second season.

After a Webby award-winning debut, host Anna Torres kicked off season two by exploring the research

on joy and laughter and how they can be leveraged effectively in schools.

Here's what the research also said, that humor can be used to elicit and maintain attention,

improve retention and information.

That's available now in the Beyond My Years podcast feed.

Your ability to orthographically map and store words in long-term memory for automatic retrieval winds up being the key to comprehension.

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

We're now onto episode two in our Season 10 deep dive into comprehension.

On this episode, we're exploring one of the gateways to comprehension, orthographic mapping.

And today's guest is an expert on this topic.

She is Dr. Katie Pace Miles, associate professor and director of

Reading Science Advanced Certificate at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. And along

with Molly Ness, she authored the recent book Making Word Stick. Before we jump into this episode,

I want to give you a quick definition of orthographic mapping, and it comes right from the book at the center of today's episode.

Orthographic mapping is a cognitive process that facilitates the storage of words in long-term

memory by connecting a specific word spelling to its pronunciation and meaning.

Basically what we're saying is we want to help students understand the sounds that they hear,

the letters that are represented by that sound, and when you put those sounds together in a word, what that

word means. The cognitive process of bringing sounds, words, and meaning together is called

orthographic mapping. Remember, this season, we'll be tackling your comprehension-related

questions. Submit a question for me or our upcoming guests at amplify.com slash S-O-R mailbag.

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