Our graphic organizer is called
‘Back to Basics’ taken from the ‘Back to School’ sign in a certain bookstore
supplies. As you can see, we have schools supplies representing the ideas in
the text. The book contains the stages undergone by a reader whenever he/she
reads a text resulting to comprehension. The apple represents the strategies
that will help the reader to understand what he/she is reading and that will
aid the teacher in assisting the learner during reading activity. The scissors
facing the notebook signifies the problems encountered in comprehending written
texts. It is facing the notebook because it presents why Fourth-Grade learners
experience problems in comprehension especially in expository text. The book
states ‘good readers use reading comprehension strategies’ when they read
either narrative or expository text. Back to Basics is looking back as early as
in the Fourth-Grade why learners in the higher academic level still suffer
difficulty in comprehending expository text, wherein they are exposed too much
to those kinds. Moreover, we are looking for possible solution on how to lessen
those problems by suggesting strategies in reading.
Reflection as
Students:
It is true that
reading stories are a lot easier than reading the written text. We enjoy
because most of the time we can relate our life with the stories. We find the
content areas in reading quite
challenging, especially in math and science because of the many new
terminologies that we encounter while reading. Moreover, we cannot relate much
because we don’t see or use them often in our life. Furthermore, because of our
lack interest in reading written text, we don’t give much time to read or if we
read, we just force ourselves to do so to meet with the academic requirements.
Hence, we don’t enjoy reading and find it meaningful in life. We think that
motivation to read is very important and we should vary our reading to
different reading content areas and not just reading stories so we can develop
widely our knowledge in all if not in most of the reading content areas. We
agree that the more we read, the more we learn and the more knowledge we have
the more we find our learning easier. “The rich get richer” holds true to
readers who have acquired a good background of reading knowledge and continue
to develop their reading skills.
Reflection as
Teachers:
As teachers, we value the importance of reading
not only in our field of teaching but also in the other content areas so that
we can be more resourceful and flexible in our teaching. We should be aware of
the changes in the academic areas, especially in education, society and
political
as well as economic fields. We should update ourselves with the current issues
in society.
We should equip
ourselves with different reading comprehension strategies so as to help our
students, especially the grade 4 learners and above to make sense of reading
expository text which is so different from stories or narrative texts. We should be role models first to our students,
help them to be aware of the different text structures, motivate them to learn
new vocabularies so as to have good vocabulary knowledge and to use question to
connect to prior knowledge, organize the text structure as well as to review
and extend the text.
As
teachers, we feel happy when our students show understanding in learning new
lessons, in reading text with ease and in participating in the learning process
actively. We want in as much as we can to help our students improve their
comprehension skills especially those who are still struggling with expository
text. We are convinced that to become good and knowledgeable readers, we keep
on reading and exposing ourselves to different kinds of reading materials
applying comprehension strategies to aid and develop our reading comprehension
skills.
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