Leila's Reflection: Ch. 2- Defining your Goals

I really enjoy reading about Sharon Taberski's experiences and strategies that she used with students to help them learn to read. I can say that this is probably the one of the few textbook that I am absorbing all the meaning out of it. With other text books for my other classes, I will admit that after reading for a bit that I begin to drift off because it is so boring. However, Sharon writes with such passion and enthusiam that the reader like me can feel what she is feeling. Her writing techniques and organizations such as to write from her own prespective as if I am reading from her own personal dairy is very creative.

The main topic that I like from this chapter was about encouraging children to read a variety of genres. I feel that it is important to have the students to keep an open mind about all type of genres. He/she might miss out on experiences that different authors has to tell in their stories. For example, poems express emotions that might help a child see what life is all about or fiction stories can expand a child's imagination. Overall, I want my students to understand that reading opens up a whole new world where your imagination has no limit to what is possible such as living in space.