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

Science of Reading, a new teacher's guide. This free e-book gives you the critical information you need,

including a detailed breakdown of the reading rope and the 10 foundational science of reading principles.

It also provides key information on dyslexia, assessment,

serving multilingual learners, and so much more.

It's packed with beautiful diagrams,

a perfect compliment to the podcast if I do say so myself.

Download your science of reading guide at amplify.com.com slash S-O-R guide.

If you're in higher ed, you have to really sit down and have some hard conversations with each other.

This is Susan Lambert and welcome to Science of Reading the podcast from Amplify, where the science of reading lives.

We are now just two weeks away from launching our ninth season.

But before we do that, we have one more episode in our summer interlude that I cannot wait to share with you.

Throughout the history of this podcast, many of our guests have pointed towards higher education as a key piece of the puzzle in the Science of Reading movement.

It was just a couple seasons ago that we featured the founder of an uber popular Facebook group

called Science of Reading, what I should have learned in college.

And that's part of the reason it so caught my attention earlier this year when I saw

that the University of Akron had received a grant to establish a center for structured literacy.

And in June, I was thrilled to connect with Dr. Rebecca Tolson,

director of this new center, and Dr. Lisa Lennhart,

director of the University of Akron's LeBron James Family Foundation School of Education.

What resulted was a fascinating conversation about higher

education and literacy instruction, as well as about this brand new center at the University

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