After reading Chapter 6, about activating student prior knowledge and student interest, why do you think it is important for you as a teacher to prepare a strategy that would raise interest and activate prior knowledge in what you are about to have the students read. What pre-reading strategy (covered in that chapter) do you think would be helpful? As a teacher, would you let students decide what they wanted to read or would you choose their readings for them? What do you think the authors of the chapter meant when they suggested that you let students choose what they wanted to read? How often do you think would you let them have some degree of choice?
I feel that the PreP or Pre-reading plan is a useful strategy for pre-reading. It is used to estimate the levels of background knowledge that students bring to the text assignments. I also think the prediction strategy is useful as it puts students minds to work before reading.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher, I would choose what the students would read as not every student is on the same level. If you let students choose what they want to read, the may pick a book that is too hard or too easy for them. As the teacher, I can correctly estimate where their reading level is and what books would be the best fit for them.
I think the authors meant that students should be allowed to choose what they read as they would pick something that interests them. When students get to pick out their own books or assignments, it interests them more to complete the task. I would let students have their pick not on a regular basis. A class should be kept consistent for the most part, so the teacher should regularly choose the assignments. But the students should be given some freedom oh so often to choose their own as it will interest them more in the lesson.
-Noreen Abedrabbo
I definitely believe that story impressions and problematic perspectives are amazing strategies to use as a teacher. It creates a learning environment in which the students will be more likely to participate and feel like they are learning something. As a science teacher it would be hard to allow students to choose their own books that they'd like to use within the classroom. This is mainly due to whether or not the book provides enough information or is even relative to the current lesson or overall curriculum. However, although it is a science class and not a literature class, there are still many amazing fiction books and stories that I could encourage my students to check out or read while in my class. The most choice I would have to give my students would be if the school offered different science textbooks, other than that, most schools use mainly one type of textbook per subject.
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