Essay: The Importance Of Learning How To Read

Learning to read is a fun and engaging time period for children, however it can also be very complicated for them to pick up on. As children get to the age where they are developmentally ready to begin reading, they must begin with the basics. This is not something that they can learn with one sitting. Some children will pick up reading quicker than others. It is important to remember that children learn differently and excel at different rates. Just because a student who is developmentally ready to learn how to read, doesn’t mean that they will start reading the third week of practicing the basics, however, that also doesn’t mean that they will never learn. It could be a cue that the teacher needs to try a new method for the specific child. One method can work for the entire class, but one student and that …show more content…
Until this was brought up, I never thought about the importance of keeping the student’s work, theirs. After we had our in class meeting, I went back through some of my work that I created when I was in elementary school and saw that almost all of it had teacher writing on it. While examining my creations of illustrations and sentences, I noticed that it was a little upsetting that the numerous teachers took away from my individual meaning. As I help students with learning to read in the future, I will never write on any of their work again. There has been times where they write a few sentences and then we go back as a group and read them together. I would find myself writing above the word (only if it was unreadable, if it was partial phonetic, I would leave it be because I could understand it and so could the child) now I realize that I was taking the shine away from the student. This is a method that I found to be very useful for myself. We need to build the students up and help them succeed, not knock them down during the