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Podcast: Science of Reading: The Podcast
Episode: S3-10. Deconstructing the Rope: Language structures with Kate Cain
Description: Join Kate Cain, professor of language and literacy at Lancaster University, as she unwinds language structures, a strand of Scarborough’s Reading Rope. In the latest episode of our Deconstructing the Rope series, Kate explores language structures in the simple view of reading and explains its connections across reading comprehension in literacy development. She also highlights the reciprocal relationship between books and conversation and underscores the importance of reading aloud to children from a young age to develop their vocabulary and semantics. Quotes:“Simply knowing the individual word meanings and the word order alone...