-The inferences section in Ch. 6 stuck out to me. What made an impact on you in these chapters?
Something that made an impact on me in these chapters was the section on making inferences about punctuation. So often with students who are learning to read, they do not understand the difference that punctuation has on how their voice should sound when they are reading. They may also struggle with understanding what different punctuation marks have on the narrators feelings, so by making inferences about punctuation, it allows the students to look deeper into what the different punctuations are revealing about the narrator and other characters' feelings.
-How do you respond to students “who don’t get it”? After this reading how will that shift?
When students respond by saying they don't get it, I try to figure out what could be confusing about what we are working on. I try to think of how I gave directions and whether or not I gave them wrong or in a confusing way. So then I try to break down the directions and the tasks in a way that make it more clear for my students. If the confusion is based in the material itself, I try to help them make connections and relate it back to the lecture. I will also focus on prompting and guiding to best support the students' comprehension.
-Comprehension, understanding, and change is the goal of any reading. What will you do differently in your teaching after reading this section?
I will make emphasis on the fact that all readers struggle, they all learn at their own pace, and they all use their own strategies to be successful. Something I would like to have my students do is to write on a piece of paper (either anonymously or not) their own strategies that they use while they are reading to better their own comprehension. Then, I would share the different strategies with the class, as well as model the different strategies. This would show all students that everyone has their own strategies that they use and make these strategies aware to the other students to try to use for themselves.