This is from Michele:
Dear Ben,
After I read this link about learning to read in Waldorf, I wrote a letter to our local school about how well I would fit in there as a language teacher! I couldn’t believe the parallels.
http://blog.bellalunatoys.com/2011/waldorf-reading.html
Michele
[Ed. note: Below is the part that jumped out for me personally. I believe this to my core and I believe that all our classroom efforts with CI should be in this direction, the direction of the heart]:
…just as a normal, healthy child will learn to walk without our teaching her, and just as a child miraculously learns to speak her native language by the age of three without lessons, worksheets or a dictionary, so will a child naturally learn to read when she has a positive relationship with the spoken and written word….