I agree with this chapter because predictability provides stability and a sense of knowing what to expect. I prefer to go to class knowing that we are going to work on journals today, rather than not knowing from day to day what the activity will be. And then, when children become our teachers, showing us what they see and delight in and wonder about and reach toward, then, and only then, will we be able to extend what they know and enrich their ways of knowing. Wise teaching, like wise parenting, begins with watching and listening and delighting in the learner. And they do.
Children have nearly invariable success in learning the complex and subtle skills of talking.