- Chapter 3
- Chapter 3, “Culturally Responsive Teaching in Diverse Classrooms,” helps the teachers to respond successfully to the cultural and linguistic differences that exist in the classrooms and at the same time promote the leaner’s academic achievements.
- The chapter also emphasizes that the culturally responsive instruction is essentially related to the student’s motivation for learning, their funds of knowledge, and ways of learning.
Personal Reaction
- I believe that culturally responsive classrooms help the students find academic experiences more meaningful in their day-to-day living, hence this makes them become more focused and interested on whatever they are learning.
- I think the instruction, which is responsive to the cultural differences in a classroom helps to make the connections with the origins, backgrounds, and interest of the students to teach the necessary standards that are associated with a given curriculum.
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 11, “Learning with Trade Books,” suggests that through furthering their knowledge about the trade books, instructors can equip themselves better to meet the linguistic, emotional, social, and academic needs of the contemporary students.
- The other idea that this chapter brings forward is that trade books engage the students a lot more than textbooks. This means that these books compared to the textbooks go more into depth about various topics that are taught in the classrooms.
Personal Reaction
- I believe that trade books offer emotional, intellectual, social, and linguistic experiences to the students hence there is a great need for the teachers to increase their knowledge about these vital books in learning.
- In my opinion, trade books should become part of learning in every learning institution because they help the students understand more about what is taught in the classroom besides increasing their linguistic, emotional, and social experiences.
- Article 1
- The article, “The Impact of Trade Books on Reading Achievement” highlights the current studies on positive effects that trade books have on students’ reading achievements. This means that the more trade books the students read, the more they become better readers.
- The other important idea that this article brings forward is that reading extensively supports the overall progress and growth of students in the academic learning as well as in the world of knowledge.
Personal Reaction
- In my opinion, students should be encouraged to read more trade books to better their ability to read, their vocabulary, and their knowledge about the world.
- In fact, instructors should lay more emphasis on student’s trade books reading as these books play major vital roles in increasing the reading attitudes and interests of the poor readers.
- Article 2
- The main idea in the article, “Using Trade Books in the Classroom,” is that trade books can be used magnificently to increase the motivation of students in the classrooms since they cover almost every topic.
Personal Reaction
- In my opinion, instructors should use these books in classrooms as much as possible as they help to reinforce the student’s literacy skills and increases their interest in the topic being taught.
- In addition, instructors should use these books in the classrooms to create humor and remove the classroom boredom.
- Article 3
- In the article, “What Students Need to Learn: Teaching Science Literacy,” the two authors brings forward the idea of teaching the students how to examine, review, and evaluate ideas and knowledge through scientific investigation as well as argumentation process.
- The other idea that this article brings forward is the teaching method that is focused on fostering the critical literacy.
Personal Reaction
- In my opinion, teaching the students how to examine, review, and evaluate ideas and knowledge through scientific investigation as well as imagination helps to motivate them to become more engaged and curious participants in the science.
- I think a teaching technique that fosters the critical literacy come with far-reaching implications. It helps students to be more insightful about the world and more importantly empowers them to make informed decisions about the way they interact with the world.
Two Questions from the readings
- How do textbooks and trade books provoke a student to take an efferent stance or an aesthetic stance when reading the text?
- Does the use of lesson scenarios and instructional methods offer the students a richer and lasting understanding of the science, the necessary scientific concepts, and its place in the global community?
