Final Synthesis Blog
Coming into this semester I really had no idea of what to expect in this class. I could figure it would have something to do with reading in content area classes, but I had no idea the extent of what that would look like and just how much it can help my students in the long run. I had no idea think alouds would have to be so thought out with certain strategies to really be focusing on. I didn’t realize that there were so many different reading strategies I could use before, during and after the “reading” and just how much it can help my students in my class. And last, I didn’t realize just how fun and interesting I could make reading for my kids. Before this class I had heard of read alouds but didn’t know just how much went into them. The point of read alouds I learned was to model what a good reader should be thinking while they are reading. Page 30 of Subject Matters was a great resource for ...