Lauren Paz

1/26/11

ELD 307

McKool

Reading Log #1

R&C Chapter 1

Chen Chapter 3

Owocki & Goodman Chapter 3 and 4

Observations

• Reading provides students with the tools to take advantage of their democratic rights

• Reading is a process that requires not only the teacher helping to educate the

students but the parents as well.

• Knowing that the students all have different reading levels helps the teacher to come

up with lessons to accommodate each student.

• Reading to students allows them to see the words and hear the pronunciation.

• Parents who read to their children expose them to vocabulary at earlier age giving

them a head start with reading.

• Allowing children to collaborate with a partner before answering a question helps to

relieve stress.

Wonderings

• How can you come up with reading activities that suit the needs of all the children?
• Does putting the students in groups based on their reading level help?

• How do you come up with a reading schedule for the day when there are so many

components that make up reading?

Observations

• When I worked at the daycare center I would do read alouds with the students, I think

helped them to see and hear what I was reading.

• I also think that breaking the students up into groups based in their reading level does

help. When I worked at the Elementary school on London they used this same idea in

the classroom. I think it helped ease the pressure on students knowing that their group

was on the same page as they were and that they were not being left behind.