Hello!
I am a new member of your group and excited to share ideas! I have taught
Grades 3, 4, & 5 for 17 years. I finished a Master's degree in Reading and
Literacy last December and will be the Title I reading teacher this coming
year. I live and teach in a "village" of 310 people in rural Nebraska. Our
school is a K-12 district and due to the open enrollment laws in NE we have 287
children in our school. 90 students are option students from a larger town 13
miles away.
Sometimes I feel isolated out here on the plains, so I am thrilled to find
this group of effective and caring teachers!
I discovered reading strategies on-line through a teachers chatboard. I
bought and studied all requisite books and incorporated strategy teaching
throughout my reading instruction with good results. This spring I read Nancy
Atwell's
"The Reading Zone" and am now very confused!
Her basic premise is about your top-down/bottom-up debate.
Atwell suggests that children learn to comprehend fiction by READING! She
suggests getting the right book in a child's hands is the singular most
important component to their learning to comprehend. She feels strategies such
as making connections teach our children to be segmented distracted readers.
She feels that when a reader enters 'the zone"
of a great story comprehension will follow. She feels teaching strategies is
only necessary when reading nonfiction.
Has anyone else read this book? What are your thoughts?
Christina
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