I agreed with you after listening to your argument :) Passing tests is such a hot button now in schools- and I agree with what you said about these young students are just making connections with the language and that so many of these outside "thing" just add more pressure that can inhibit learning, or reading. ..or. . .or . . . Yes, there does need to be a standard. It's too bad though that all teachers aren't great teachers. . .otherwise perhaps we wouldn't need tests. ?
I agreed with you that I feel passing tests maybe should not be included on the “reading is”, but I also agree that their needs to be some standard for students to meet. I believe they over push the testing piece and not the piece about students fully understanding of the reading process. You mentioned in the beginning that you did not think Hypothesizing and Researching should be on “reading is” and those were ones that I did not necessarily agree with you on. You did not discuss those further on your Yodio so I will just express my thoughts on these two words. When I work with my daughters I have always asked them what they think will happen in the story. I think the sooner you can get students think about what might happen if you did this is great. I got to watch a science experiment in the 3 / 4 grade blend that I have been working with and it was great to see them guessing about what might happen next. They got to feel like a part of it and the seemed more invested in the outcome. As to researching, again in the class I work with right now if a student does not know what a word is she puts out dictionaries in the back of the classroom and allows the students to look up the words. This is a form of research; researching does not necessarily have to be a formal process, but an investigation of the unknown. Those are my thoughts on those words and I wished I could have heard why you thought those words did not belong.
Hypothesizing--if you think about what hypothesizing requires, maybe you could consider it as part of the reading process. When we hypothesize we take in information that we already know about something and then we predict what will happen. A significant part of the reading process is predicting and then checking our predictions. When students are predicting and checking (metacognitively) then they more than likely won't remember what they read or won't make meaning of what they read.
Excellent job drawing upon the list to define the processes involved in reading.
I agreed with you after listening to your argument :) Passing tests is such a hot button now in schools- and I agree with what you said about these young students are just making connections with the language and that so many of these outside "thing" just add more pressure that can inhibit learning, or reading. ..or. . .or . . .
ReplyDeleteYes, there does need to be a standard. It's too bad though that all teachers aren't great teachers. . .otherwise perhaps we wouldn't need tests. ?
I agreed with you that I feel passing tests maybe should not be included on the “reading is”, but I also agree that their needs to be some standard for students to meet. I believe they over push the testing piece and not the piece about students fully understanding of the reading process. You mentioned in the beginning that you did not think Hypothesizing and Researching should be on “reading is” and those were ones that I did not necessarily agree with you on. You did not discuss those further on your Yodio so I will just express my thoughts on these two words. When I work with my daughters I have always asked them what they think will happen in the story. I think the sooner you can get students think about what might happen if you did this is great. I got to watch a science experiment in the 3 / 4 grade blend that I have been working with and it was great to see them guessing about what might happen next. They got to feel like a part of it and the seemed more invested in the outcome. As to researching, again in the class I work with right now if a student does not know what a word is she puts out dictionaries in the back of the classroom and allows the students to look up the words. This is a form of research; researching does not necessarily have to be a formal process, but an investigation of the unknown. Those are my thoughts on those words and I wished I could have heard why you thought those words did not belong.
ReplyDeleteHeather, can you put your name in your title? It's hard to tell who is who... Sarah D
ReplyDeleteHypothesizing--if you think about what hypothesizing requires, maybe you could consider it as part of the reading process. When we hypothesize we take in information that we already know about something and then we predict what will happen. A significant part of the reading process is predicting and then checking our predictions. When students are predicting and checking (metacognitively) then they more than likely won't remember what they read or won't make meaning of what they read.
ReplyDeleteExcellent job drawing upon the list to define the processes involved in reading.