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

On this episode, we're continuing our Summer Rewind series with one of our favorite conversations from season two.

Dr. Sonia Cabell, now an associate professor in the College of Education at Florida State

University, joined me to talk about the role of language comprehension and how it's often

overlooked and misunderstood. She talks a bit about the false dichotomy between learning to read

and reading to learn and how to build critical academic language competencies early.

Thanks again to Sonia for her time. I know you'll enjoy the conversation.

Sonia, welcome to today's episode. So excited to have you on today. Thank you for having me. I'm excited

to be here. So as you know, we always spend the first little bit here chatting about who you are

and how you ended up in this reading science space. Yeah, it starts back from when I was 12-year-old

girl. I was always interested in being a teacher. My parents immigrated from Pakistan in the

70s to the United States, and they really placed a great value on education. And I think my mom had a

very strong orientation toward teaching us, and particularly teaching us how to read. I see myself,

you know, in her with my five-year-old now, you know, she would do some of the behaviors naturally

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