Chapter 7

I can't wait to use the "Say Something" model in my classroom. In high school I loved independent reading in class because our teacher let us discuss our reading with a partner and then present our ideas and comments. It really helped us understand and interpret our novels. I totally love the music reference as well. Anytime anyone relates something to music it makes it so much easier to understand because pretty much everyone listens to some sort of music. Beers has mentioned reading aloud and talking through a text in previous chapters. I still think its a very good idea. Rereading is awesome. I am definitely going to have my students do some rereading when I start teaching. Thinking aloud is good. But I also think it probably works better in small groups or in helping students when they can just jot notes to themselves and we can think aloud as a class. The examination from all this would come straight from the points and highlights the students bring to attention.