Commentary On The Article 'Redesigning Reading Instruction'

The article called “Redesigning Reading Instruction” is a very interesting and informative about what we need to change in the reading programs in the classroom. This article talks about three things: what differs but shouldn’t, what is the same, but should differ, and what schools can do. This article addresses the amount of time spent reading individually and even out loud are becoming less and that is not helping our children. Some things that need to be addressed in the classroom are who is choosing the material that is being used for the children to learn. There are three important things that schools can do and they are: prioritize time for reading in the school day, allocate more resources for a wide range of reading materials and let teachers and students decide what to buy, …show more content…
Gay Ivey hit on so many points that I feel are important to readings program. First question I would ask is “You mentioned that reading of novels is hard to do with a class without adding activities to make the novel more interesting. How would you suggest being able to read a novel in class and not getting to caught up in the activities?” I would like to incorporate novels into my classroom reading programs but don’t want to fall prey to this method. Second question I would ask is “You talked about the teachers being involved in the picking of the books that are used in their classroom. How do we do that and what would be the first step in getting that accomplished?” I think that this is a huge challenge for many teachers and would like to know how to approach it when I become a teacher. The third question I would ask is “What do you think that is the biggest way that we can help teachers become better reading teachers and incorporate it into the programs that we have to use?” There are so many things out there that are going to help me to become a good reading teacher I need to know what would benefit me the