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We found that this particular structure, when kids used it, in their text, predicted their writing achievement.

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

This is episode 12 in our reading reboot, reexamining and building on foundational literacy concepts.

Throughout this reading reboot, we've been paying particular attention to writing.

And now we're in the midst of a special mini-series devoted to the key reciprocal relationship between reading and writing.

Last time, Dr. Judith Hockman kicked off our deep dive into writing research, also sharing some of her practices from the writing revolution.

This time, we're exploring writing assessment, informational text, academic language, and more.

Our guest is Dr. Andrea Truckenmiller, Associate Professor of Special Education and School Psychology

at Michigan State University. Stay tuned to learn more about

morphological complexity, text structure, explicit instruction in academic language, and so much more.

Here's our conversation. I'm so excited, Adrienne, Trekk and and Miller to have you on today's episode.

Thank you so much for offering to be a guest.

I'm really thrilled to be here.

I've listened for a long time and excited to get to chat with you today.

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