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It's hard to get excited about this when you don't understand it.

So I think our goal, our job now is to help raise awareness.

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

caught the syntax bug last time around as we welcome Dr. Julie Van Dyke, who explained,

if you want to increase comprehension, you need to be explicit in syntax.

Well, today we're diving deeper into syntax, this time with Nancy Chapel Everhart,

educational consultant with extensive experience as a resource teacher, special education

administrator, and professional development provider. Among other roles, she serves as the co-editor

and chief of IDA's perspectives on language and literacy, whose recent two-parter on syntax is something

we explored on our last episode. Today, Nancy and I will

discuss how syntax helps students process meaning while reading, why we should start early and

teach syntax to students from the beginning, and a more functional approach to teaching syntax.

And please remember to continue submitting your questions on comprehension

at amplify.com slash S-O-R mailbag. Now, let's get to today's episode. I am so excited to have

Nancy Chapel Eberhardt on the podcast today. Nancy, welcome and thank you for joining me.

Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to talk to you about syntax and we'll get into that in a little bit.

But before we do that, I would love if you could tell us a bit about who you are and how you became

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