Chapter 1

This chapter was the perfect way to open the textbook. Not only did the author reassure the reader of "Hey, I'm afraid of writing this textbook because I don't want it to be boring" and began to talk about the very fundamental premise of teaching reader: the ones who have trouble. She uses a student named George as her example who really struggled with reading. She used George to illustrate that there are several different reasons why a student may not be able to read and easily intertwined the "meat" of the text into her example. To me, this made it an easy read and I expect it to continue to be one. It wasn't difficult to comprehend the points she was trying to make and she wasn't using overly 'scholarly' language to try to teach us something. By bringing it down to a realistic level, it showed her care for making sure we knew what we needed to and how to apply it.