We spend oodles and oodles of time teaching kids how to read. We build words, break words, even make and take words. You get the picture...We spend a whole lot of time decoding. Decoding is reading, right? No, not quite... When we left for Spring Break our kids were cracking any code we put in front of them. They were decoding up a storm.  It was the best robotic, cave person talk we've ever heard.  But, it lacked 2 major things...fluency and comprehension. It was troubling us...A ... VIEW POST