Chapter 4

As teachers, we should not assume that when a lesson plan is given, that students automatically comprehends what was said. As said in a previous blog, there needs to be more than one strategy to learn. The author claims that certain strategies can help students transform from dependent to independent readers. I feel that a lot of these strategies can be done both in class as a reading activity and also has a way to get students to think deeper into a reading. The author also gives a “play by play” instruction of how to teach certain strategies. Although I like this idea of actually showing students how to become active and independent readers, I also feel like this waste so much class time. Being a high level teacher, I think I feel this way because I am implying that should already be strong readers by the time they come into my classroom. When I find students who have slipping through the cracks of the education system and have yet to learn certain strategies then I feel that if will be crucial to create or explain a strategy based on where they are having difficulties and their learning style. That is why I find this chapter an important one; it helps prepare teachers for all aspects of comprehension, whether it is early or later in a student’s education.