PERSONAL STORIES
“Casey is a smart girl, she just flip flops the letters when she sees them on the page. She gets so frustrated when she tries to read on paper. If she hears me read something, she can almost always answer questions I ask about it!”
“At the end of each story we do, I ask the students recall questions and critical thinking questions. When Abigail answers hers, she almost always remembers some parts of what we read. However, there is also always something missing. She can hone in on some of the most interesting details, but then will miss the big picture entirely. This shows up even more with those critical thinking questions.”
“James is a pretty good reader. He can spell almost anything you ask him to. But he cannot tell a story in a straight line. Whether he’s retelling a story he read or telling something from his own experience or imagination, he always goes off on a tangent and never gets to the end.”