Paz Martinez Series book and Millers

For my readings I choose to read A series of unfortunate events because it seemed like an interesting book. I have to admit that the book caught my attention because of the way the author describes it to be a misfortunate story for the Baudelaire children. I have never read or heard of this book until now to be honest. The story is about 3 small children who are very intelligent and unique. Violet who is an inventor, Klaus who loves to read, and Sunny who is the youngest of them all. The story starts out by terrible news for the children from Mr. Poe who worked in a bank and was a friend of their parents. Their house had burned down and nothing was left behind for them. They were very shocked to hear the news. They were next placed under Count Olafs watch. And their life there was also miserable. Count Olaf did not care for these children all he could think of was how he could get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune. He tried everything to get away with it. But his theatrical show came down. One thing I loved about this book is that it uses big words for children and then explains them also. I started watching the series of this book and some events are a bit off in the movie but I actually liked it. I think this book would be something that maybe a 4th or 5th grader would enjoy reading.

In Miller textbook there were many great things that caught my attention. One of the first things that sounded intriguing to me was how she mentioned that reading has made her become a better teacher. I thought this was absolutely right because as persons we expand our vocabulary with just reading different books. Something else that I really agreed with was that as teachers we should cut down the time frames that our students should be reading. Perhaps having them read 10 to 15 minutes 3 or 4 times a day instead of trying to get them to read  for 40 minutes straight. We tend to get bored and just keep reading without realizing that we really aren’t understanding what we read. So we often find ourselves going back and rereading a second time.