Week 2 - Classrooms That Work Chapters 1 and 2

While reading, I thought it was very interesting that in chapter one the classrooms with the most success were the ones who had the opportunity to talk about and reflect on what they read and wrote. Reflections, like the blog we are doing for this class, are so vital to beginner readers. I know when I am reading and I know I have to discuss I am much more observant and pre-thinking about what I am going to write or talk about while I am reading. This helps me understand different views of the same passage that I read that I probably did not think about while I read. The book also said higher levels of engagement lead to higher levels of reading and writing, which obviously means something. Teachers should give their students the opportunity to talk about what they are going to write about and reflect on something they have read either through small book clubs or just randomized groups each time after reading.