Chapter 7

As I said in previous chapter blogs, I really like to use the "Say Something" strategy in order to see my student I am tutoring for the OGT gain a greater understanding of what he is reading. After reading paragraphs or stanzas he tells me what he thinks he's read. Next time, I think I am going to try to have him make a prediction of what will happen next. I really like the idea of the double entry journals, because they are very similar to a class blog... but without the blog. I think that this can get the class very engaged with the material and take notes at the same time. I think the bookmarks would be a great way to ask questions about material. Personally, on various types of novels, I would like to have used bookmarks during readings at home, and use them in the classroom to help understand the plot, and characters. Although I think syntax surgery is a great idea in theory, I think that if a student would look back on the paper dependent readers could get confused, discouraged, and want to give up.