Our twelfth Reading Meeting from June 27th where our guest was Dr. Julie Washington. She is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California – Irvine (UCI). The conversation focused on the relationship between oral language variation and reading ability as well as issues around instructional practices and poverty. More about past and future meetings, as well as links to the articles referenced, can be found at https://www.seidenbergreading.net/zoom