ABSTRACT
Efficient readers are equally proficient with the meaning and with the print, and use each to gain insight into the other, checking and cross-checking. Although few miscues are the result of students absolutely depending on either print or meaning, they are usually the result of students favoring one of these cueing systems over the other. The practice of using specific prompts systematically overrides students’ decision making around which strategies to use. The best dance teachers scaffold thoughtfully and flexibly as the student practices the basic step over and over. The teacher presents students with a shared reading passage with selected words encrypted using the Wingdings font. After teaching students about the ways that decoding and making sense support each other, it is important to help them see how cross-checking can work with words that are not encrypted.
