Here's a nice British archivist discussing the SRA Reading Laboratory, a graduated color-coded system for developing reading comprehension skills. Any kid who, as I did, thought this was fun on a bun was immediately shipped off to the Future English Teacher Camp for Extraordinarily Nerdy Dorks, where we spotted main ideas from canoes, hiked through dense prose, learned to build a fire while self-scoring, and were secretly relieved that the increasingly difficult readings weren't numbered, since we couldn't remember the order of colors anyway. To this day, if I see a two-page article or a piece of flash fiction, a thrill of expectant spazz-ness courses through my febrile frame; but the day I start making up questions for them is the day that I—well, that will be the day when I will feel fulfilled as a person.
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