Gallagher: Chapter 2

I enjoyed reading chapter 2 in Gallagher. I especially like what was written on page 17 - "The Importance of Collaboration". I liked this because it talked about deeper reading. In my I-Search paper, I was researching/discussing how students can take more from a text through deeper reading and discussion. Towards the middle of the page, Gallagher talks about what we remember, taken from Edgar Dale's Audio- Visual Methods in Teaching. It's crazy that we only remember 10% of what we read and we remember 70% of what we talk about with others. I guess it just goes to show how important it is to discuss material with your students. If students can practice deeper reading and then discuss it others, I think they would remember the material much better. Gallagher also says "the richer the text, the harder it is for any single reader to uncover it all on the first reading. Because of this, it is important that students be given time to discuss what they discovered while reading". We are all human, so sometimes we need to reread or examine the text for more detail or understanding. I'm glad that Gallagher discusses this because I will definitely take this to my classroom.