Hi listeners, it's Susan. Nominations are now being accepted for the fifth annual Science of

Reading Star Awards. Learn more and nominate a literacy leader from your life. It could be an educator,

a school, or a district. Just visit amplify.com slash S-O-R-Star Awards.

When I think about reading comprehension, I think about it in terms of our cognition and all

its glory.

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

This season is all about comprehension and today we're continuing our exploration of comprehension

assessment.

Last time around, Dr. Gina Bioncarosa spoke about her groundbreaking work on a new kind of

assessment. If you haven't listened to that one yet,

please check it out. We'll have a link right in the show notes too. This time we're continuing to

explore comprehension assessment with Dr. Melissa Farrell, author of reading assessment, linking language,

literacy, and cognition, as well as the co-author of All About

Tests and Assessments.

She recently retired as Director for Evaluation at the Stern Center for Language and Learning

in Williston, Vermont.

In short, she's a real expert when it comes to assessment, and I'm thrilled to bring her

on to the show. And don't forget to

submit your questions about comprehension at amplify.com slash SOR mailbag. And now here's Dr. Melissa Farrell.

Dr. Melissa Farrell, thank you so much for joining us on today's episode. I'm very happy to be here.

Oh, man, I just can't wait to get into this because we'll talk about it in a minute, but

you have created a resource that is absolutely fabulous. And like I said, we're going to get into

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