Magical, Not Magic
“It’s magic,” a teacher I was working with recently declared after a reading conference we co-taught with one of her kindergarteners. David is in his second year in kindergarten. He works with a speech therapist and an occupational therapist, and as a reader, he had been struggling to get off the ground. While he could decode a level D book accurately and remember any given page, -- as the teacher described his comprehension— “something's missing. He’s just not getting it
