Hi listeners, it's Susan here. Just in time for the school year, I have a brand new resource to tell you about.

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It also provides key information on dyslexia, assessment,

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It's packed with beautiful diagrams,

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Really, that's our legacy to them as the world's knowledge about the things that have happened and the world that we live in.

It's their birthright.

This is Susan Lambert, and welcome to season 8 of Science of Reading the podcast from Amplify,

where the science of reading lives.

After seven seasons and more than 4.5 million downloads, we're thrilled to now share a brand new season all about knowledge. This season,

we're going to look at why knowledge is so critical for literacy development and how it can be

developed in students most effectively. Over these next few months, we're going to dive into

specific topics like the research on read alouds.

Read alouds really are the way to build language comprehension.

We'll delve into best practices for developing vocabulary.

I like to think about vocabulary not as individual words, but as a set of labels for ideas.

We're going to kick things off by stepping back to take a big picture look at the years of

research on background knowledge and its key role in literacy development.

My guides through the decades of research on this topic will be two scholars out of the solar lab at La Trobe University

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