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When it comes to phonemic awareness, we know that those higher levels of phonemic awareness are actually where we need to focus with our kiddos.

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

Today I'm joined by the author of another wonderful new book, this one titled Literacy Unlocked,

How to Implement the Science of Reading with Young Learners.

Amy Berkholder is a literacy coach and national speaker, and her new book is full of ideas for educators to put into practice.

On this episode, we'll pay particular attention to her chapter on phonics and unpack one of the

specific activities she recommends.

She'll also offer some realistic advice on implementation and more.

Without further ado, let's bring on Amy Berkholder.

Well, Amy, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to have you here today. Thank you so much for having me.

I would love if you could tell our listeners just a little bit about your, well, I guess, path into education or path into teaching and some of your early teaching experience because I think it's going to farm a really good foundation for what we're going to talk about later. Yeah, for sure. So I started my education in first grade as a teacher,

and I remember, and I always tell this story, they just kind of handed me like the old clunky

basils, and they were like eight of them and they were like here

you go like here's your reading material and I just remember looking at those and feeling like I had

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