Lauri Francis asks her 8th graders which terms they don’t understand in the paragraph their classmates just read aloud. “Blind spot,” one says. Ms. Francis writes the two words on the blackboard.
Reading coach Margie Willhite, left, sits in on Kristy Dallaserra's Whittier kindergarten class during a Reading Mastery lesson. Reading Mastery is a program used by the Butte School District that ...