Reading Response 1: Ch. 1,2 and article

The readings assigned contain valuable information and statistics to help classrooms become good learning environments. I do agree that to become good readers there should be a lot of reading involved in the classroom. Reading helps to expand the vocabulary and helps students to understand language. I thought it was neat to see how teacher read-alouds made a difference in how excited children got about reading themselves. I also agree with the fact that communication is important especially when helping children feel comfortable in the classroom and with their fellow classmates. I think it's important to be knowledgable and able to correlate all subjects taught in the day, so that children get more familiar with the material and can create relations between it all. One shocking fact that I found was that anchored word instruction was the only positively effective instruction in the observed classroom. What about in older classrooms? Which instruction would be more effective I wonder? The last paragraph put in perspective how important the teacher and their attitude towards reading is in a classroom. The teacher is the "most important variable in how well children learn to read and write". However, isn't it the parents too? I think parents also have an equal part in teaching a child how to read and write. The parents need to assist the child and allow them to know they need to practice to become good, avid readers. I understand that the teacher is the giver of the lessons to learn to read, but it's also with the needed help of parents children become good readers. I enjoyed finding out ways on how to make a more enthusiastic classroom for reading. While I was reading I could definitely relate to a lot of the ideas that the author stated, and could remember a lot of similar things that I did when I was in elementary school. I think teacher involvement and a one on one relationship is important to children first learning to read. Younger children want to know that you care about their success, and enjoy being acknowledged and praised for doing good. The reading conference is a good way to share this. It was interesting to find that we find our reading preferences at an early age and most of the time carried it into our adulthood. I loved reading Nancy Drew when I was little and thinking about it then and now there is a correlation on what I enjoy to read.  The six T's from Allington's reading I feel are entirely accurate and make a lot of sense. I think every aspect is equally important as the other, and the teacher needs all of them to maintain an effective classroom. Why doesn't every classroom include the six T's? Why haven't school districts paid more attention to what works and what doesn't work?