Jaime's Ch.12 Reflection

Independent Kindergarten readers? I’ve never seen it this semester with my Kindergartners. Taberski says that Kindergartners “may need two twenty five minute reading sessions instead of one longer one.” I haven’t seen my students read independently for ten minutes. Maybe they only do it on certain days and I’m just not around during those times but shouldn’t this be done routinely every day? What’s sad is that I know the students are interested in books yet my mentor teacher or myself has to tell them to put it away because the class needs to hurry up for morning business. Every time that I’m there I’m constantly telling them to put away their books and read it later when they get home. Another sad thing is that many of their parents don’t read to them when they do read it at home. I think my mentor teacher should set some time to have her students read independently during class. Hopefully when I become a teacher I will remind myself that independent reading should be one of the most important times of the day. Children need to practice in order to become better readers. As children gain the confidence in their reading, they begin to realize that reading is enjoyable. These children are likely to be lifelong readers.