This paper highlights how the social world understandings of Rey, an 11th grade Latino student, supported his exploration into and insights of a short story. This work is grounded in the Cultural Modelling Framework. This framework provides students with the chance to acquire important comprehension strategies needed to interpret complex fiction through explicit instruction. The framing theory supports an understanding of the significance of Rey's contributions informed by his perceptions of the social world and the expansion of literary inquiry practices. The findings centre on the importance of valuing experience and knowledge rooted in the reality of students' lives and ideas about the social world.