Leila's Ch. 6 Reflection

All the running records that I have done so far, I never had asked my students to retell me what they read. The reason for that is because I don't know what the story is about.

From reading this chapter, it helped me realized that you don't need to know the story a student is reading in order to do a reading discussion. It is impossible to read all the books that is labeled for a specific grade level. Sharon simply advises teachers to read the summary on the back cover, scan the table of contents, and galcne at the pictures to get a generalization of the story. That isn't too hard to do. But how do you know if your students knows what the story is about? If the student talks confidently and accurately about what he/she reads, then he/she probably has a reasonable understading. It makes sense to me. With these fears of mine addressed, I think I am now able to try it out as I do my running records.