Chapters 5 & 7

These two chapters were very helpful to me.  I have heard a lot about helping students with reading strategies and so on but this is the first time I have seen examples of many different strategies laid out.  Chapter 5 not only explains the strategies but also gives examples of how to implement them.  This is something I feel has been missing from my education, education up till now.  There is a lot of talk about using different strategies and theories behind different things but there has been, in my opinion, a lack of practical examples of not only the strategies listed but of how to implement them.  Personally, I would like to either read something like this or have things explained in a lecture more often I feel my apprehension for my first year of teaching would be decreased remarkable if practical examples are given and explained.  Especially in the area of class room management which I feel has not been gone over in any great length in any of my education classes.  Chapter 7 is a good reference to making a class room an open and safe environment for learning.  Again, it was nice to have not just things listed out but explained and explained with examples.