Welcome to Week 2! After reading chapter 2, please respond to the following prompt.
PROMPT: You may have noticed that in the Common Core standards are teachers are not instructed to guide students to “make text-to-self connections, access prior knowledge, explore personal response, and relate to [one’s] own life. In short the Common Core de-emphasizes reading as a personal act and emphasizes textual analysis” (25). With the focus squarely on textual analysis as the primary means of comprehending and interpreting texts, how might these expectations change your approaches in the classroom? What are the implications for your reading instruction?
Responses to the prompt are due by Monday evening. Then, you are expected to revisit this site and reply to at least one of your fellow participant’s comment by Thursday. If you need help posting your comment, watch this video.
Don’t forget to read chapter 3 in anticipation of next week’s prompt.
