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Subjects Matter Chapter 2

I think a lot can be learned from this week’s reading. Since this is one of the first classes I have taken on how to teach a subject rather than the subject itself, it has sparked some really good thinking for me. One thing I thought was particularly interesting in chapter 2 were the thinking strategies of effective readers. Reading is not always a fun and exciting thing for students. Oftentimes, many students, for lack of a better term, hate reading. But why? I think there are many factors, but one of which is that they simply don’t understand what they are reading. In order for reading to be an enjoyable task for our students, we must make it as interesting as possible. This is what I think these strategies are meant to do. It tells us to recall and connect it to something else. We must first and foremost make sure our students understood the reading. If they didn’t understand it, then there isn’t much we can do with that information. We must implement different strategies to make sure they can recall the information. Secondly, I think connecting the material to something else is is an amazing tactic to help students with this process. If you can relate even the most boring passage to something your students already know and enjoy, that will make them comprehend the reading so much better. Both of these strategies, along with the rest, are important for reading in any context. In my classroom, I want to implement these strategies in order to help my students be the most effective reader they can be. I think by using these ideas, we as future educators, can help make reading more fun for our students. In order to be successful in any subject, we must be effective readers, so it is our job to make sure we are teaching these strategies to our students in order to make them the best readers possible.




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  1. ThompsonAugust 26, 2019 at 2:45 PM

    Good. Make sure that you start naming specific strategies and practicing them repeatedly, so you can remember them well and pass them onto your students.

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