ABSTRACT
All day long, Yvonne Divans Hutchinson demonstrated, encouraged, celebrated, and guided students through an active and critical reading process that undercut the common perception that reading simply involved the decoding of words, that print had single, basic meanings that students had to decipher quietly and store away. She had students write in a “reading journal” a dialogue between themselves and the author of whatever book they were currently reading, agreeing, disagreeing, sympathizing, questioning—engaging the ideas in the pages.
