Chapter+9

Chapter 9-"Did I miss anything?" If teachers become distant from their own learning they will most certainly become distant from the learning of their students. When it comes to teaching reading, your purpose can be informed by ligitimate research and best practices, or it can be defined by other people's agendas. Repeating several strategies again and again in class work in making students successful readers. Classrooms are not the only place kids can learn to question and wonder, but it is a good place to have them think hard about the world around them.

"We'll Never Have All the Answers"-It is presumptuous for anyone to think they know what's best for another teacher's classroom. It is the author's wish that teachers will take what is written in this manual and change it to meet their needs, and the needs of the student. This book will only help if you listen and trust that voice that is in your head, the one that states, "We all know more about reading instruction than we think."