I Read it but I Dont get it

While reading Chris Tovani’s text, I read it but I Don’t get it, I had to stop and think many times throughout. It made me think about the different style of reading teachings that I’ve had in the past. The book is based around different strategies that will help teachers at the middle and high school levels get their students comprehension skills up. It is both humorous and serious at times, and I feel that really helped the reading. For students, the learning never stops, there will always be different strategies to learn that will help guide their reading comprehension. Tovani really distinguishes what it means to read a text. Not just decode words but sum up a comprehension of what was just read. She wants teachers to help their students construct meaning for what they just read.

In my own experience, I got through all of my courses by what she says is “fake” reading. I found myself reading the text but not really understanding what was being read. I didn’t materialize the reading into a full understanding of “what and why” went on. She believes that if we guide our students correctly we can be a model for them to be great readers. We can help them with strategies to understand the reading better.  We can guide them using her classroom experiences and use what works and see what didn’t work and why. Overall this book resonated with me. She seems to have got the key to what it is to become a really good reader and teacher. She is really enthusiastic and believes that the classroom setting and teaching should be the same. Her strategies will not only be used in the single classroom but also in all other classrooms where they will read to comprehend the text.