"For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read
surfaced abruptly in 1979 when she began teaching. That year, she
discovered that some of the students in her seventh-grade language arts
classes could pronounce all the words, but couldn't make any sense of
the text. Others couldn't even pronounce the words. And that was the
year she met a boy named George. George couldn't read. When George's parents asked her to explain what their son's reading difficulties were and what she was going to do to help, Kylene, a secondary certified English teacher with no background in reading, realized she had little to offer the parents, even less to offer their son. That defining moment sent her on a twenty-three-year search for answers to that original question: how do we help middle and high schoolers who can't read?" (from Amazon.com)
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