S6 E9: Lessons from a talking dog: TV's "Reading Buddies" on making learning fun

Science of Reading: The Podcast

Amplify Education

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

4.5 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of the smash hit foundational reading series The Reading League’s “Reading Buddies,” aimed at students in pre-K through third grade. Susan is joined by Andrea Dotto and Brendan Malafronte—artists, performers, and co-founders of children's story hour and media company Dusty & Dott—as well as "Reading Buddies" executive producer Toni Ann Walsh. Together, the four of them discuss how the show started and how Andrea and Brendan got up to speed on...

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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.
0:44.6	This is Susan Lambert and welcome to Science of Reading the podcast.
0:51.6	We hope you've been having some fun this holiday season, and we want to keep the good times rolling.
0:57.4	So on this episode, we're bringing you something a little different.
1:01.7	Hey, Dot, what badge am I going to get today?
1:04.2	Today's alpha badge is called the O vowel badge.
1:10.0	That's sound from an episode of Reading Buddies, a children's TV series about a woman named Dot and her talking dog, Dusty, who's learning how to read.
1:19.4	Vowels are what I use when I get out of the bath.
1:25.3	Those are towels, Dusty.
1:28.0	A vowel is a sound you make when your mouth is open,
1:30.8	and your lips, teeth, or tongue don't hold them back.
1:34.0	Woof, those vowels are busy and fuzzy sounds.
1:38.2	Yes.
1:38.8	From our friends at the Reading League,
1:40.7	this TV series is bringing the science of reading to kids
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