I Read it, but I Don't Get it!

I enjoyed this book. Overall I found it very insightful and it had a lot of good ideas to help students with their comprehension. One of the concepts that I found the most interesting was the idea of having multiple voices as you read. When I read I generally only hear myself reading the text. I do not have any other voice reading the text critically. But, this does not stop me from thinking critically because I am able to make connections as I read… I just don’t have a second voice doing it as I read. It made me concerned that I have been reading wrong but also I probably will keep doing what I am doing because I do not know how to have two voices happening at the same time. Plus, I have made it this far.

I really liked the sections about how she used her strategies with her reading workshop classroom. It made this book a lot more interesting and it helped me see the effects of her strategies as she used them. I am a good reader. I have never struggled with comprehension or reading a text. My biggest problem is that sometimes I lose focus as I read but I catch it before I am on to the next page. It was very interesting to me to see the ways kids can skip reading and how much it actually takes to comprehend text. One of the most shocking sections to me was the section on questioning because questioning text as I read is something that just occurs naturally to me now. I do definitely think I will use this text to help my students. I want to be able to help my students with their comprehension and this book gives me the tools to do that.