Chapter 1

Kamealoha’s Chapter 1 Reflection

I really enjoyed reading this chapter. I was hoping that this book was going to be interesting to read. I have had some trouble in the past with some of our other text. I thought that it was interesting to read about children who read a book that they know the background information to. It made me think of my little brother. I relate a lot of what I learn to my little brother, I think it makes things easier for me to understand. My brother loves sharks. I notice that when he is reading a book on sharks to me he has an easier time figuring out what the words are. This is because he knows a lot about the different kinds of sharks and this knowledge helps him a lot.

The story about Jasmin and Danny made me think about my classroom. I was walking around during paired reading and listening to the kids read with one another. As I walked passed this one pair of students I heard them talking about a word. The word was sensible and one of them said sensitive. The other child said “no, it can’t be sensitive it has a b in it.” Together they sat and looked at the word and figured out that it was sensible. I thought that this was so cool the way that they worked together to figure out the word.

When I was reading our role in teaching I must admit it made me a little nervous about all of the things that I am going to need to do in the future. I have had a chance to do some assessing of reading and demonstrating effective strategies. But I still need to work of the other areas.