I'll never forget a student of mine, let's call him Jay, who could read words so well he could "read" at an eighth grade level in third grade. The problem was that he couldn't understand a thing that was going on! That's called "word calling" and isn't reading at all. Reading is understanding, so if the understanding isn't there, it isn't reading. Many times I have discovered that many students have variations of "word calling" that aren't as severe as Jay's, and have gotten away as being...
