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After reviewing the quote from Rushworth Kidder, our group reflected upon student struggles with realizing the importance of reading. Many of us focused on the idea of how we are okay with and our students have become okay with "oversimplified" readings. We agreed it is important to challenge students with various readings on topics and to encourage them to read in their own time.

Personally, after reviewing the quote I felt a bit of conviction in my own time that I provide myself to read. To be a better teacher of literacy and the love of literacy. I have to also make more time to  immerse myself in books.

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As a science teacher, I teach students the importance of not just accepting scientific findings at face value. They must read the fine print, the footnotes about how the science was done. Furthermore, they must understand the biases of the study, such as the background of the scientists who completed the study and the diversity of the sample. This requires critical reading skills.

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We discussed the importance of reading and creating a love of reading not only for enjoyment but also to gain wisdom. Reading leads to personal growth and deepening one's understanding of intricate topics.

As a practice the attribute of loving to read allows for enjoyment while informing yourself. It allows for many viewpoints of the same topic to be explored. It stops the loss of knowledge over time.

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Importance of developing a level of reading that allows for an understanding and comprehension of the text. We discussed how reading is crucial regardless of the subject you teach or your field of study and how we can incorporate it into our classes and show it's importance.

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My greatest takeaway from the text was that as teachers we need to teach our students that learning can be fun and motivate them to want to learn and understand from reading. As a 2nd grade teacher, it is important to me that my students understand all of the reasons why they need to know how to read and how it can be helpful to them. For example, following directions, reading a recipe, or just reading for fun are all reasons students need to know how to read. Reading is a crucial part of learning, however it does not need to be something that students are not excited about. Rather, as teachers we should find ways to make it interesting for them.

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We both focused on the importance of not only teaching how to read, but also focusing on developing the "why you should want to read" and fostering a love of reading. I talked about how a text to practice connection working with students to develop the language skills to create strong readers. We also talked about teaching the critical thinking skills to understand reading materials, and teaching students to be critical thinkers while they are reading.

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Reading is so important and if we don't teach literacy, fewer and fewer people will not be able to think and write on their own. Teachers need to be enthusiastic about teaching literacy to engage their learners.

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Text to self: Setting reading goals and sticking to them, sharing joy of reading with others, being sure to read more than just a function of everyday life.

Text to practice: Teaching students that reading is a life skill, not just for this test or this class, share personal reading experience with students, add YA novels to TBR and discuss with students, oversimplified reading = social media, headlines, etc.

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The most important thing we can do to help our students with literacy is to help them find the real reasons to research, read, interpret and analyze information. Sometimes they need to read something they aren't choosing, but we must provide motivation and purpose so that they understand why they are reading.

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We focused on the challenge of helping students see "why they should want to read." Especially as someone who focuses on teaching English, I wonder how we can scaffold reading for pleasure, so that kids might come away from our classes with an understanding of why they should want to read. How can we teach important skills while also providing time for students to read with a focus on enjoyment, learning from texts, and critical thinking?

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Reading is important and we should try to read both fiction and nonfiction to aid in critical thinking. In math, I should have more focus on math vocabulary to help the students be more fluent in mathematical language.

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We discussed how we need to make time in our personal lives not only to read but to share those literacy experiences with people in our lives -- in the classroom and with our peers. We then discussed the importance of showing students that literacy is important beyond their English classrooms and how they can apply and benefit their literacy throughout their lives.

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My partner and I discussed the importance of reading for the sake of making informed decisions for yourself rather having decisions made for you.