Reading in the Wild: Megan Williams

I really like Miller’s text! Besides the fact that it has a really soft cover and I like to pet it (not to sound creepy) I think that this book will be very beneficial to myself as a future teacher. I really enjoyed the little excerpt on series reading. I never thought of the fact that reading a series that a child actually liked would result in them actually wanting to get through the series! Thinking back on my reading, I loved to read series books because it was just a really long story broken up! I mean I did enjoy just a singular book too, but if I didn’t get into it I wasn’t motivated to read it whereas the Hunger Games and the third book I just had to know how it ended! I think that a challenge may be to get students interested in constant reading! She has her students read a lot and log it. I just feel knowing my luck I would get someone who doesn’t enjoy reading at all or who feels pressured to do all that reading by peers so they just fake it. I don’t want my students to be forced to read or feel like they need to go a certain speed, which is what I fear the most about myself teaching reading. Also what if I pick a book and nobody likes it! Reading really should be enjoyed not forced! I guess I could just learn some strategies about making a list and letting the students pick. But other than that I think that once I read the whole book that I will learn some pretty awesome tactics! YAAAAY TEACHING!