Woman on a Mission
Hello everyone,
I am Kelsey Pelagio, I am a Junior at Chico State. I transferred here from Butte Community College where I received my Associate degree in Liberal Studies. My goal is to become an elementary school teacher. Some of my favorite things are music, friends, family, pets and children. I am originally from Chico born and raised. I look forward to getting to know all or most of you. Happy reading!
To me being a reader is someone who feels pleasure within reading and it doesn’t take them that long to understand or become engaged with the reading. I feel it is someone with a real passion for learning as well as reading. Some reading that I do outside of school is articles on Facebook, magazines, and also some pleasure reading with popular books that I find on Buzzfeed, if they interest me I find them, buy them and read them. The only way I read differently outside of school is I am more leisure about it and I tend to enjoy it more because I am choosing what to read. Sometimes my readings will connect from inside and outside of school, but not often. The reason behind it is the books or novels I am reading for pleasure don’t have a connect with special education, psychology or teacher education due to them just being stories and not theories or relevant information. Some take-aways I got out of the Williams article were to find connections with your students and what they read to find out what kind of reader they are. Also, to not judge them right away off what they are choosing to show you in how they read or genres they like to read.
2 Replies to “Woman on a Mission”
Hey Kelsey, thanks for the first blog! I like your connections to enjoyment and choice when it comes to reading…so so true. And smart to consider getting to know your students and who they are as readers. We will talk about this a lot this semester, especially as we read Donalyn Miller’s book. Kim
Kelsey! I love the connection you made between the term “reader” and engagement. I definitely think there has to be some sort of connection to what is being read. I also relate to gaining more enjoyment from reading when I get to choose what I am reading. The way you concluded your post by mentioning people shouldn’t judge another person based off of what genre they choose to read is something I hadn’t thought about. Now that I think about it I think what a person decides to read does come with a label and it shouldn’t be that way. I enjoyed your post!