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Blog 1

Blog 1

Good afternoon my fellow classmates. My name is Chia Lor. I am a transfer Junior from Yuba College. This is my second semester at Chico. I am doing so far so good. I am currently in the TTEC program for transfer Liberal Studies major. I have to say this program is amazing. I recommend it to other students out there as well. I am majoring in Liberal Studies and minoring in Child Development. I always have the passion for teaching and I love being around children which works perfectly with Liberal Studies. My family has always been my inspiration and motivation to achieve higher education. I am the first generation to attend college. I want to continue on for my Master’s Degree after I get my BA. As a future teacher, I want to change the view of education. I want to make learning an exciting and thriving experience.

Response to “A puzzle to the rest of us: Who is a `reader’ anyway?”:

1)      I believe a good reader is one who first skims the texts to see how the formatting is.

Then look up words that he/she may not understand so as the reader continuing reading he/she may have a better understanding of the sentence as a whole without trying to figure it out from the words in the context.  A good reader reads and rereads the text a couple of times to give it a fuller understanding of the message, question, or thoughts behind the sentence.

2)      A positive reading experience I have had during my elementary school years was my 2nd grade. My teacher would read us the series of “Junie B. Jones” after lunch and every time she reads the book I would listen carefully to all the words she says and be so excited for the event that will happen next. Since Junie was a little girl I feel that I can relate to her and it really helped me wanting to read more about her books. My teacher did a reading reward points in the classroom. For every book that we read in or outside of class we are required to pass a ten question reading test. If we passed the test we received two tickets and if we failed we were given one more chance to reread the book and get all the answers right the next time. At the end of every Friday we may use those tickets to purchase items off the Reward Shelf. I personally would always read Junie B. Jones books and pass all my tests. This strategy helped me not just to read books and get tickets, but to also understand the message behind the book and wanting to read more.

3)      I do read outside of school, but it is more of a pleasure reading. I read books that most of the time does not relate back to school. For examples, I read Facebook feeds, recipe books, Bible verses, newspaper articles, bills, shopping lists, children’s books, and books based on true stories.

4)      Some claims that Williams is making in his article is that sometimes teacher uses the term “Reader” addressing to a student or self, but truth is it has many options to what you mean to identify it as. It can be a good reader, good in literacy, good in a certain subject, or be a fast reader. It is how you identify it to the context to help people know what you mean when you address the term Reader. My take-away from this article is words that we use to address someone or something can have many meanings and to help clarify to our students or listener we have to make it clearer to them without having them assume what we meant.

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