jaimie k's reflection to taberski ch. 1...

Chapter 1 was interesting. It was nice to learn about the role that the teachers and the students have during the process of reading. It’s not only the teachers’ efforts that effects whether the students will learn how to read or not to read. The students have a very important role to play also.

I like that Taberski wrote about the different things children use to help them read. I would have never thought about or even realized that those could be factors to help a child learn to sound out or read words. Such as using “their own experiences and background knowledge” to help them sound out a word. They can look at the pictures to help them figure out the word(s) or look at the surrounding information. This is a great start for children, but we all know that they can’t rely on it forever. Not all books have pictures in it, and even if they do, how would they know which part of the text it’s relating to?

One of the other strategies I thought was neat was “Learning Through Analogy.” They can relate words they don’t know to words that they do know. Teaching a student to use little tricks like that could really help them in their progress towards reading.

We always hear about the things that we as teachers should know. It was nice to finally see what we could teach students so that they can help themselves, and us. Maybe, hopefully, they already know these techniques but don’t realize it.