I am a firm believer in reading and writing instruction that involves authentic experiences. In particular, the instruction needs to be centered around ideas that are relevant to the kids we are teaching. With reading instruction I feel like this can often be lost. If we get hung up on the particular level of the student, students may miss the opportunity to be exposed to really rich content. How do you lose content at lower levels? Well, one of the big issues is the vocabulary being used, which can often bump up easier texts above what a student "is capable" of reading. Should a lower level reader be stuck in texts like "The cat sat on the mat. Go cat."? There needs to be more than those low level readers.
A great example of that is idea is found in the video below:
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