The first line from this chapter
that really caught my eye was, “Young children learning to read and struggling
readers benefit from the support of hearing a story read aloud and from the
opportunity to read along to stories written on their reading level” (Johnson,
2014). I liked this sentence because I agree with it 100%. From experience I
know that you can learn better when hearing another person read out loud to
you. I think that whether a computer or a teacher is reading out loud to you is
beneficial. This way you get to hear how all the words are pronounced and how
the story flows. This can be very helpful for students that are struggling with
their vocabulary or ELLs.
I found the online annotations to
be really helpful. As a future teacher the online sticky notes seem like a
great tool. I have never used these before. These sticky notes can be a very
useful way to monitor your students reading. If the student is reading from an
online source they would be able to make notes and mark pages that are giving
them trouble (just like if they had regular sticky notes in a traditional
book). The student can mark words that they are struggling with or a page they
may need to come back to.
Another quote from this chapter
that I liked was, “Modeling how to use strategies flexibly to solve different comprehension
tasks becomes even more important as technologies rapidly change and new forms
of literacy emerge” (Johnson, 2014). This plays a huge role in a classroom
because technology is always changing. Us as future teachers need to be aware
of this and change the way we teach with the technology. We have to be flexible
and learn with the students through all the problems that technology might
have. A good example would be with this class because we are all learning how
to work through the technological problems together and be flexible to work
around it and try other ways and websites.
Hi Jessica,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with the quote in our textbook. I do believe children will improve and benefit from hearing stories read out loud to them. I remember when I was younger I struggled to read, but my parents used to read to my siblings and I every night before bed. I remember my teachers telling me my reading was improving day by day, and I truly believe it was because my parents read out loud to me.
I also really enjoyed being able to experience and use the sticky note annotation. I wish I had known it existed before because I would have used it in all of my classes to create study guides and homework sheets to study before examines or to review what I studied in class. I really think it is a great tool.
technology is an advanced thing that changes more rapidly than we do. I think we as future teachers need to be aware of this and become adaptable to how we teach.