I have so many great memories of reading with the kids, and one of my favorites has to be the time that I was working with a 1st grade boy, a macho manly boy, on a story that contained a lot of dialogue. It seemed a perfect story to make into a play, so we each adopted the characters… and I told him we had to play the roles in character, male and female, young and old. He looked at me, I looked back with a “yes, go ahead” look…we both laughed so hard that day. That’s why I love SMART…and that’s why SMART works.