A holistic view of reading takes into account that “both the reader and the author are equally active in constructing or building meaning.” The text available is the “medium through which the author and reader transact.”1 Teachers who learn miscue analysis learn to build individual and personal models of reading for their students. By involving the teacher on such an individual basis in the reading process, reading can become an even more rich and complex place for author/reader transaction. Now, there is room for not only author and reader but a listener as well.