5th Gear

  As future teachers it is imperative that we develop healthy reading strategies in this class. How can we teach healthy reading strategies when we haven't learned reading strategies for ourselves? A teacher trying to teach reading strategies without prior knowledge is like a NFL or NBA team hiring a head coach that has no type of knowledge about football or basketball. Even though that does happen from time to time, that's another conversation for another day.      The Ted Talks that I have attached is a great source for future science teachers to get their students excited about science. Most students appreciate science more once they see how it can affect their everyday lives.  The speaker in the video used real-life situations in science rather than students just doing a science worksheet and calling it a day. -WC:136

   As a reader, most of the time during my grade school years I was reading for completion rather than reading for understanding. In order to truly understand what you are reading you have to become one with the text. In other words, you must have some kind of knowledge about what you are reading. That definitely wasn't me. I had a strong displeasure for reading, so I would read books just for completion purposes then throw it back to the library. The only books I had a genuine interest in reading were 30-50 page sports books, and the Captain Underpants series. That trend eventually ended after I received my first F in literature my junior year of high school due to my lack of interest in the Canterbury Tales and Beowulf. At that point I knew I needed to start liking reading very soon.    If I had to define reading, I would define it as looking at written material silently or even aloud. Subjects Matter suggests that good readers have a stable of effective strateg...