Deeper Reading 2&3

I love how Gallagher brings the fact to the surface that teachers are the "headsets" that frame the literature for the students. This concept is so much more effective than cold reading. I could have done a lot better in comprehension in high school if this theory would have been put to the test sooner. Even now, I think the resources I've learned in some of the last few classes I've taken should have been given in the beginning of my degree program to prepare me for some of the first classes I took early on. I would have been a lot more productive in reading if I had read this book at the start of college, for instance, because it gives not only the teacher helpful hints to exercise but also the student. It makes sense -warming our students up to an assignment will train them to read for deeper discussions. Gallagher is right on. We all ask "what's in it for me?" This is a subconscience feeling initialized with an assignment. It's not a selfish focus. It's an automatic response we face in every situation. Student's need to know what they're going to get out of the assignment and it's our job to let them know. Not only that, but what we want them to take away from it. And, that is exacty what framing will do. It will make the literature reading, or the assignment at hand "real" for the student.

Priscilla