Teacher question: What do you think about “modeling” in literacy instruction? Shanahan’s reply: Tyler’s mom sent me the video. It was riveting. Like many 21st century parents she had a camera going in the nursery at naptime. And, the camera revealed something pretty cool during an afternoon nap. Tyler was a toddler. He had started day care recently, the youngest kid there. Now he was in his crib and supposed to be sleeping. But Tyler had his book and was jabbering away. He wasn’t pretending to read so much as he was pretending to read to a group of...