Reflection 3

Reflection 3

1. What was the chapter about?

2. What does this chapter tell you about teaching students?

3.Can this chapter be applied in your content area?

1. Chapter 5 of “Subjects Matter,” explores different strategies to promote student engagement in varied content readings. Daniels and Zemelman break down these strategies into five organized categories: Showing kids how smart readers think, activities that prepare students to read, helping students process ideas as they read, guiding students to reflect and share ideas when they are finished, and learning vocabulary. 
2. This chapter provides detailed instructions on 23 different teaching strategies in order to help students internalize what they read. The chapter emphasizes the importance of actively instructing students how to use the presented strategies. It is important for teachers to model the proper way to execute each of the strategies in order to provide students with clear and concise expectations. While working through the text it is essential that students are able to visualize, question, and make connections within the text.
3. All 23 of the provided strategies are very helpful and can be used across content areas. One strategy that I think would serve as a formative assessment as well as a way to allow students to reflect on what they have learned, are the Exit Slips. These exit slips can be as simple as a piece of scrap paper that on which the kids write down two of the main ideas discussed in a cultural reading. It is very important with the new teaching evaluations and common core objectives for teachers to integrate reading comprehension as well as assessments into lesson plans. I believe that these exit slips knock out both of these tasks while promoting student achievement! Go exit slips!