Chapter 3 in WK

The sentence I found interesting in chapter 3 is,"Reading is a social process, an interactive activity, one in which readers create meaning through transactions-interactions-with the text, their prior knowledge, the context, and other readers."

I found this interesting because this is how we need to teach our students how to read. Enabling students to interact with one another after reading helps them understand what happens in the book better. Using literature circles is a good way of doing this. It also gives the students opinions about the book whether they like it or not. Also, the students need to have some prior knowledge to understand what they are reading. For example, they need to know about the holocaust and what happened to understand Number the Stars. This helps the students actually have interactions with the text and keeps them interested in the book. Finally, I completely agree with how reading is a social process. Students ultimately learn from each other and with the teacher being a guide in this process, they will become better readers.