ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief overview of miscue analysis as a vehicle for understanding the miscues that readers make; ten principles of miscue analysis are presented. A rich example of one child’s reading demonstrates how much he understood, even when he made multiple miscues. The discourses of acquisition and meaning making are explained and the power and importance of the latter are underscored. We describe our work with teachers and the ways in which they came to understand miscues as windows into meaning making, an understanding that changed their thinking and teaching.
