Does any of the information presented in Chapter 15 influence your personal philosophy of reading? In what ways? How has your perspective this changed since you took the DeFord TORP a few weeks ago?
Much of the reading and information given to me in Chapter 15 is data and information I have learned and already implement into my classroom. Weaver discusses the importance of decoding and various strategies for teaching literacy and reading comprehension. There are many great idea. I especially liked the Detective Club. Weaver discusses the importance of whole language education which rolls over into chapter 16 discussing the success of a comprehensive literacy approach. By implementing collaborative group work as well as developing and reviewing strategies, the books shares the successes and ways in which different literacy approaches can be used throughout the entire instruction. I like the idea of using multiple strategies so that all students are gaining different forms of instruction. Some students may learn differently than others!
The first time I took the DeFord Torp my results were based primarily on knowing specific reader skills. Now it is different in that my results are more spread out, leaning more towards a whole-language approach. I was very thankful that I got to learn so much in this class as everything in this class is what I implemented last year in my first year of teaching but now I have text to back me up.
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