Coby's Chapter 12 Reflection

Once my brother and I were watching X-Men the cartoon. In it Prof. Xavior told Jubulee that she should not help them fight Magneto because she was not experienced enough. "Well how else is she supposed to get experience?" my brother asked. That memory still sticks out to me because I have to remember to let my students gain experience even if I think they may fail. One once said that failure is the mother of all success. And that is why we practice. We practice trying to do whatever we want to succeed in and we keep practicing until we meet our goal. The same goes for reading. This is why independent reading time is so important. It is a time for students to practice. It is a time for students to experiment. It is a time for students to take what they remember learning about reading and apply it to actual reading. This is the importance of independent reading and it is with this intention that we must go into it. If not, it will be seen as no more than a busy waste of time. Taberski encourages us that when our students start to read the y will enjoy it because of the intrinsic reward that it gives them.