February 14th, 2012
Gallagher- Finding the “Sweet Spot” of Instruction
This chapter is aimed towards finding the sweet spot of instruction. The chapter focused on being an effective teacher. It discussed how students need help to navigate the text. Our goal as educators is to help students find the “sweet spot”. The sweet spot is where students read text and it clicks and it opens a door to reading at a whole new level. It focuses on how it is not about liking or disliking a certain text it is about taking something valuable from the reading. I thought a great strategy that she used was asking the final question first. This gave students something to look for as they read so they could understand the bigger concept of the book. That is definitely a strategy I would want to use in my classroom because it gives the students direction. I do best in classes where the teacher is very clear on what to look for. If I am given information and no direction it is very overwhelming for me. Which is why I think this is such a great strategy because while reading the students can be looking out for main concepts and making connections. I think that framing is plays a huge, huge role in helping student connect to what they are reading. Reading challenging text is like being given a word search without the word bank, you just don’t know what you are looking for so it is pointless. Framing is the word bank.
The reading strategies I used while reading this text would be taking notes and making connections.
Citation
Gallagher, K. (2009). Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It. Stenhouse Publishers
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