Monday, March 9, 2009

Chapter 5 in WK

The one statement I found interesting in Chapter 5 of When Kids Can't Read was, "At least once a day, read aloud a short passage and think aloud your inferences." Chapter 5 was all about learning to make an inference and how to show students how to do this. 

I found this helpful for me because no matter what, reading aloud is very important for students. First, it opens up the door to different genres and the students could be interested in different genres, they just don't know it. Also, since the chapter was about making inferences then thinking inferences aloud is very important. It is important because many students don't know how to do this correctly and doing it aloud shows them how to. Also, doing this once a day gives them multiple examples in inferences in different genres and different books. Hopefully, after showing the students how to inference then they will begin to do it when they are reading by themselves. 

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