-How important is accessing
prior knowledge for students? (Baseball study) How do you immerse
students in background knowledge or text sets to facilitate activation
In my opinion to be successful in anything prior knowledge is
always helpful.
While doing the reading on the baseball study I found it really
interesting that when kids who were poor readers were prior info, they were
able to understand the material as well as the good readers who didn’t have prior
info. Goes to show that not everyone learns the same way, some kids need the prior
info and others don’t.
-Multiple exposures are
important for retention and independence. How will you offer these
opportunities?
In my room each morning we read the morning message together, we
have one of our stronger readers go first so the poorer readers have a chance
to hear it first, we also use a pointer so they can focus on one word at a
time, and when they say a word we know is wrong we read the sentence out loud
with the word they said to see if it makes sense. That way they can pick out
the mistakes themselves.
-What strategies stuck out to
you in this chapter and what ones and how will you bring them into your
instruction?
I really liked the three big
questions strategy; I think it will really keep the kids engaged and interested
in the reading. It will also help us see where a student in their comprehension
as well as if they are retaining what they are reading. It will make it easier to
see what areas need work.