I really liked what I read of this. I'm not going to lie, I started it late so I didn't finish, I got about half way through. I should've started reading sooner. But who has time for that? I like how she talked about how she personally struggled with reading comprehension and didn't learn how to read until her 30's. It shows that you can teach an old dog new tricks. It also helped her to teach her students how to read and she knew what they were going through. I can definitely relate to "fake reading" I do that more then I would care to admit, but it sometimes is the only way I can keep up with the work load from all my classes. I do my best to actually read the assigned reading, or at least part of it. But sometimes that doesn't happen, and I just fake my way through discussions. I've done it a little bit in this class, but not as much as I've done in others.
The quote "reading involves thinking" is a good one. To some it's a "well duh" statement but how many times have you picked up a book, and just read it, took in what it was saying, and left it at that. Didn't look beyond the words on the page for the true meaning. I know that's not necessarily what someone wants to do when they read for fun, but practice makes perfect. The more we practice reading between the lines the better we will get at it. Giving students the tools to think critically about a piece of writing is a tool that will help them for the rest of their lives. However, we have to be sure that students are in fact learning the tools we are trying to give them.
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