S4-01: Applying the Science of Reading at any grade level: Laura Cusack

Science of Reading: The Podcast

Amplify Education

Education, Science, How To, Social Sciences, Early Literacy, Amplify, Science Of Reading

4.5 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Kicking off our new season, Susan Lambert hosts this special episode with Laura Cusack, Executive Director of K–8 ELA Strategy at Amplify. This dynamic duo sheds light on the pandemic’s effects on literacy achievement and strategizes how to make up for lost foundational skills while keeping students moving forward in grade-level learning. They also urge educators to make it a point to honor the diverse experience of their students during reading instruction. Quotes: “It’s all about growing an...

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, it's Susan here. Just in time for the school year, I have a brand new resource to tell you about.
0:07.0	Science of Reading, a new teacher's guide. This free e-book gives you the critical information you need,
0:13.7	including a detailed breakdown of the reading rope and the 10 foundational science of reading principles.
0:20.0	It also provides key information on dyslexia, assessment,
0:24.2	serving multilingual learners, and so much more.
0:27.4	It's packed with beautiful diagrams,
0:29.7	a perfect compliment to the podcast if I do say so myself.
0:34.0	Download your science of reading guide at amplify.com.com slash S-O-R guide.
0:44.8	Welcome to Science of Reading the podcast. I'm your host, Susan Lambert. We're doing something
0:50.8	a little different today to kick off season four. In the two years since we've launched this podcast,
0:56.9	the Science of Reading Movement has grown to the point where it's really changing lives every day.
1:03.5	We're so grateful that so many of you have brought your voices to the movement.
1:08.4	My colleague Laura Kusack and I thought this would be a great time to talk
1:12.6	through this incredible journey. I started listening to podcasts for my own benefit because my
1:23.3	listening comprehension is not that great. And so I started listening to podcast myself just
1:30.2	to help me be a better listener. And so while I was then reading research, thinking about
1:39.1	how we're trying to help teachers really translate research to practice, to understand like the voice,
1:47.9	like the voice of researchers.
1:49.9	And how does that get to a classroom teacher who's super, super busy all the time?
1:54.7	It dawned on me that a podcast was a great mechanism whereby a teacher could listen or any,
2:00.3	any educator at any level who's
2:03.0	super busy could listen whenever they needed to. They could rewind whenever they needed to,
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