http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2011/10/28/do-we-teach-students-how-to-read/ Just another WordPress site Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2011/10/28/do-we-teach-students-how-to-read/#comment-255 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:04:24 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5328#comment-255 You made some very good points. It seems like age is not a factor for teaching students how to read. Yes, reading skills are taught in elementary school but they should not stop there. As our students get older they have different needs with reading and they should be taught new skills the older they get. We should never be done learning. Great post!

]]> http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2011/10/28/do-we-teach-students-how-to-read/#comment-254 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:33:43 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/?p=5328#comment-254 Right on. It’s so fundamental that it may get overlooked. Teaching critical reading strategies along with different ways of reading – whether it’s the gloss to catch the gist or the in depth zone-in to grasp the whole – is so so so important. It seems like it’s so often assumed that students know how to read critically, and it’s on that assumption that profs sometimes write off quiet students for not having read, when the reality is students do the reading but lack the skill set to talk about it beyond here’s what I liked / here’s what I disliked. The same thing often happens outside of academe with the 25 million adults in this country who participate in book groups. many of whom, I’m betting, find it hard to get a conversation going beyond like / dislike…

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