Last summer, I read a textbook about Reading Assessment. It was extremely dry and treated children like robots rather than children. It made me consider the state of education and testing in schools today. In putting so much emphasis on the results of testing, we are turning our children into statistics--instead of what they are--human beings. It was very interesting because one point the author made is that the break for a child can be at multiple points in the reading process. It was amazing to realize how the reading process can be broken down. The simple view was where theorists started in the 1980s by stating that reading comprehension (R) down into the product of decoding (D) and linguistic comprehension (C). Now, there are more complex models. Hollis S. Scarborough's rope model used breaks down the process into language comprehension and word recognition. Language comprehension includes: Background knowledge, vocabulary, langua...