The Amazing Tale of Sven By Karen Bossick

It started with a note from a desperate grandmother. “My grandson is 12 years old, autistic and cannot read,” wrote Catherine Hayward. “His teachers say he may never learn to read. It would be a miracle if you could teach him to read.”

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Students Teaching Students By Karen Bossick

Jody Braun looked at the three students in front of him and sighed. The students were eighth- and seventh­-graders but they read just 20 to 30 words a minute—first­-grade reading level. “Most of them had gravitated toward comic books—anything with lots of pictures,” the special-education reading teacher recalled. “Reading was a chore for them

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Michael By Narda Pitkethly

Michael was one of our first students. He was on juvenile probation and had been ordered by the chief district court judge to take the Nardagani reading program. Due to his criminal behavior, Michael was considered an “at risk” child by the court.

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A Miracle for Gavin! By Narda Pitkethly

In August, I received a call from a woman named Allyn. She explained to me that her great-nephew, Gavin, is going into third grade and is behind in reading. She was very concerned. Allyn told me that Gavin was visiting her family in Boise from California for only three weeks, and then he would be going back home and starting school.

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