Monday, September 13, 2010
Chapter 3
I love the charts in this chapter. They make perfect sense and I can use them in my classroom to help assess reading levels. I also found it interesting to read about the different cases of dependent readers. Mike, as a freshmen in high school was lacking fundamental reading skills and needed help boosting his confidence and vocabulary. For Sharamee it was decoding the meaning of the text she was reading and hearing the words in her head. Amy could understand what a text meant but didn't know how to make a text interesting, or find a book that interested her. I like that not only does the author give us examples of bad reading skills, she also gives us examples of what good readers do, then adds to it by giving us a list of how good teachers help students learn to be better readers.
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Jen,
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