Second, we should provide all children, regardless
of their achievement levels, with as many
reading experiences as possible. Indeed, this
becomes doubly imperative for precisely those
children whose verbal abilities are most in need
of bolstering, for it is the very act of reading
that can build those capacities. An encouraging
message for teachers of low-achieving students
is implicit here. We often despair of changing
our students’ abilities, but there is at least one
partially malleable habit that will itself develop
abilities—reading!