I Read it, but I Don't Get it

          I Read it, but I Don't Get it has a lot of good ideas about how to teach students who don't catch on to the tricks to reading right away. This book draws the reader into reading the book by resenting her own story about how she was really able to read and understand material until she was well into her life.
          One of the points that I thought was really helpful in this book was in chapter six. It was important for the students to understand that English has many other subjects tied into it. History for example a lot of reading is about historical events. It is important for the students to know about what ever event the book is about so they can comprehend the text they are reading the best they possibly can. Creating connections for the students to relate previous topics to a current topic they are studying can be beneficial so the students don't have to make the connections themselves. If the teacher assumes that the students already know information about the topic they are learning about that can leave students in the dust and they will fall behind. So making connections for the students is important before starting a new lesson with the students.
          I like the idea of making a poem consisting of I wonder questions. It can be really eye opening, if students are prompted to dig deeper than just surface I wonders. The poems that were put into the book were really good and I would really like to try using the I wonder poem with the students.
          When teachers say to read between the lines, if they are asked how they figured out a piece of the text that is on of the worst things a teacher can say to a student. That isn't teaching the students how to learn the text it is giving the students this cliché line isn't helping the students at all. Students should be taught how to look at what the text is really saying and to use textual evidence to figure out what is going on in the text.