Lehua's Final Response - chapter 13

So this last chapter that we had to read was very interesting. It was a closer to the lessons we've learned about teaching kids how to read and how to make it meaningful to the kids. We must not forget - reading has to be enjoyable because just like us, they won't remember it or want to do it at the time. Some things that I thought about when reading this chapter was if I made it meaningful for the kids. Honestly, they probably thought, "Why am I reading this? Is this a test?" The children were called up to me and I took notes (messy check marks :) ) while they struggled reading. If I were them, I'd be thinking the same thing. I am an experiment. Hopefully they weren't thinking that but that was the only way that my teacher would let me do running records.

When I think about how the children had to reflect on the "book," I think that they had to think about what they read. It was hard for them because...How are you supposed to reflect on a book about daddy shoveling, running, sleeping, etc? Doing running records with kindergarteners was a challenge for me. I'll probably have to go back and go over Taberski's book again because when I work in my future classroom, which, hopefully is upper el because I enjoy that very much, I'll have to start all over again. It will be a whole different ballgame.