https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55 Ashlie Pyatt Brooke Rhinehardt Kevin Roberts Summer Saleeby en-us 2017-09-07 14:03:31 UTC 2023-05-21 18:46:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279686465 This is an article I read for ENGE 591, and it talks about how English teachers need to let their students talk about what they are reading, because social interaction helps students create more connections between the text and the world around them. The article also emphasizes that students should have more control over how readings are talked about in class. In this assessment/accountability-obsessed era, it can be easy to fall back on using comprehension guides to assess students, but those questions typically only address efferent responses, even though students also enjoy talking about their aesthetic responses (Tracey & Morrow, 2017, p. 64). We can't ignore the "touchy-feely" personal connections that we and our students make with literature, because all of those connections are a large part of why reading is enjoyable to begin with.]]> 2018-09-11 03:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279686465 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279688244 9th grade was a very reading-heavy year for me. I read The Hunger Games trilogy (multiple times), the Percy Jackson series (multiple times), Ender's Game, and several other books I can't recall at present. As always, I loved to read, and I would do my classwork and homework as quickly and accurately as I could in school so that I could have class time to read whatever book I was reading at the time. I always had a book in my backpack to read for fun. However, in that same year, making myself read To Kill a Mockingbird for my Honors English  class was like trying to pull my own teeth. I was a highly motivated student, so I read what I was supposed to, but I only read it to get it over with, not because I wanted to, and I notice in retrospect that the difference between my engaged reading and disengaged reading was in how I remembered the text. I only remember TKAMB very generally, but even out of the books I only read a couple of times, I remember obscure details from them that no one else does, and I haven't read those books in years.]]> 2018-09-11 03:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279688244 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279690253 I had two major experiences with independent reading projects — one in 7th grade and one in 12th grade.

In 7th grade, my ELA teacher helped me pick out a book, but it was a book that I didn't connect to at all — Where the Red Fern Grows. She didn't really care to figure out what types of books I liked to read, and she only let me pick from the few books she had in her room that she had read before. I ended up hating both the book and project.

In 10th grade, my English teacher took the time to explain over 30 books to my class during one class period and let us take a couple of days to decide on our book. We were also welcome to switch to a different book  within the first week or so after she assigned the project. She helped us pick out books that suited us and made suggestions based on what she knew about our personalities and reading interests. Reading the book I chose (A Clockwork Orange) and working on the assignment itself both became enjoyable experiences.

Engagement matters!]]> 2018-09-11 03:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279690253 rhinehardtb2 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279992026 This is an interesting article I found about the engagement theroy]]> 2018-09-11 17:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279992026 rhinehardtb2 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279994740 The engagement theory is a simple theory. The theory explains that there are two types of readers: engaged and disengaged. To get the most out of reading, one must be engaged. This causes the brain to be more active, which allows one to build off previous knowledge, and help comprehension. In my personal experience, I find it difficult to engage in reading if it is something I did not choose to read. I know this because I can read a paragraph and have no clue what it said. Over time this has become a little easier to engage in readings but at times I still struggle being engaged. ]]> 2018-09-11 17:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279994740 rhinehardtb2 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279998347 This article is about student engagement and readiness for college. It was interesting to see the number of hours students expected to be studying in college verses how many they actually studied. Maybe students aren't as engaged as they think they are.]]> 2018-09-11 17:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/279998347 pyatta21 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280013054 Back in high school, I was an avid reader. I believe it was around 11th grade when I really started getting into horror books by people like Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Even when I didn't like a book by them, I still managed to get through it because the overall concept was interesting (I really hated IT. It was too long and had a lot of filler, but I managed to get through it).

But then came time for the class book that we had to read, Pride and Prejudice. Reading that book was pure torture to the point where not even sparknotes could help me understand it. Any time I picked that book up I could feel my eyes glaze over and my brain shut off within a few sentences, it was that hard for me to read. This book pretty much killed all motivation I had that year to read. I had always prided myself in being able to read books fast. I could usually knock a 300 page book out in about two days, and being so miserable as I was forced to read that book left me with a resentment towards reading.

However, my love of reading reignited again in 12th grade when we could choose what books we wanted to read for assignments. Among the books was Lord of the Flies and it ended up being one of my favorite books that I've ever read.
-Ashlie]]> 2018-09-11 17:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280013054 saleebys3 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280641414 Reminds me of my experience with To Kill A Mockingbird in 9th grade. Experiences like ours are fairly common, which is really sad to me. Reading should be engaging, not torture. In my future classroom, I plan on using independent reading projects with common activities and lit circles to encourage student engagement with reading.

—Summer

(Also, for some reason, Padlet won't let me edit my posts to add my name, but I did the three posts at the top about ENGE 519, Where the Red Fern Grows, and To Kill A Mockingbird.)]]> 2018-09-13 02:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280641414 saleebys3 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280642075 This happened to me all the time — reading a paragraph and then having no idea what I had just read. I think it was the worst when I was reading for a gen ed class I barely understood.

— Summer]]> 2018-09-13 02:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280642075 saleebys3 https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280642726 In my internship, my teacher has a lot of college-bound students, and she was talking to them one day about how college is different from high school. I don't think they really believed her, but they'll have to figure it out like the rest of us, I guess. Most classes say that we need to spend 3 hours per credit hour outside of class, but honestly, I spend way more than than on each class per week, and I still feel like I never have enough time. The thing is, what we need to consider is that it takes our students longer to do assignments than we might think. For example, I may be able to write a 3-4 page essay in a few days, but that same paper may take a 12th grader several weeks.]]> 2018-09-13 03:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsay_yearta/cqz0i49jnm55/wish/280642726