How do we teach reading—the heartbreaking, soul-searching kind of reading, the reading thatmakes you feel as if you are breathing some new kind of air? How do we teach the kind of reading thatmakes you walk through the world differently because a light bulb is no longer just a light bulb; it’s fila-ments and electricity and the industrial revolution and all that tumbled forth from that?
This is the essential question we ask ourselves each day a we plan for our read alouds with children