Chapter 4

The strategies! This chapter was awesome. I would hate to sit and summarize the steps for teaching comprehension when I could be analyzing what I liked a didn't like. As far as teaching comprehension, she really does break it down into the simplest of terms on our end. I enjoy that she gives us prompts (many of which I already use) and some criteria for using Direct Instruction. Teaching strategies in conjunction with the content is always an area of concern for Special Educators, so I loved that she tackled that debate. I had a teacher tell me last week that a child couldn't read and probably would never be able to. He's 9, and as far as I could tell he was doing a pretty decent job. Of course he wasn't reading at grade level, but he most definitely COULD read. If that teacher would just take fifteen minutes a day to do some reading strategies and work on comprehension I truly believe she would shock herself at his fantastic reading abilities.