Blog #2
One of my biggest fears as a future teacher is coming across
students who are not fluent readers. Teachers are already crunched for time to
get their content material taught before end of the year testing, and then to
add the problem of students not truly being able to read at their appropriate
grade level presses teachers even more. I felt this chapter laid out practical
ways that teachers can help students become better content readers and better
readers in general. One thing that I really want to focus in on in my class is “giving
instruction rather than just giving instructions” (Daniels and Zemelman, 2014,
p. 283).
In my schooling experience I felt that too many times my teachers
would just give us textbook pages to read and expect us to read them without
any problems or too many questions. Other than boring me out of my mind, that
technique never did anything for me and honestly I was more confused about the
new material. If my teachers would have assigned techniques like the think alouds,
partner reading or audio reading it would have kept my attention longer and
helped me understand the material better. No two students are alike or learn
alike, so why should we assign them the same way to learn something over and
over again? I know I will encounter students who are not reading at the grade
level they should be reading at, but now I feel like I have more tools and practices
that I will be able to utilize in my classroom to allow the student to not only
succeed in my class but in the rest of the their classes, as well.
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I agree. I have had the same experiences growing up. I loved to read as a child, but I absolutely hated reading textbooks. In some instances I didn't understand the text and, more often than not, I thought the text was too long, boring, and overwhelming. Once I hit middle school, I was completely over the idea of doing the assigned readings. Needless to say, I did not do as well as I could have because I chose not to read.I believe that technique did more harm than good for many of us growing up.
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