Does any of the information presented in Chapter 15 influence your personal philosophy of reading? In what ways? How has your perspective this changed since you took the DeFord TORP a few weeks ago?
In chapter 15 Weaver discussed the philosophy of students to understand print and the practice of decoding different texts. I feel that I understand that the comprehensive approach to literacy is a good way to improve students in the classroom. On Page 372, I thought that it was interesting to see the different percentages and data that was taken from a kindergarten classroom. It was interesting to see that when a teacher used the comprehensive to literacy approach the student test scores increase. As I was reading, I notices that students confidence levels also increased, they developed a sense of security and their opinions on themselves became positive.
My perspective changed completely since I first took the DeFord TORP. My scores increased the second time so I feel that I have a learned a lot throughout the 6 weeks. When I first took the test, it was based on skills. I feel that it leaned more towards the phonics side. After the course, I took the test again. I am still in the skills field, but with more towards “whole language.” I think that this shows that I have changed my outlook on phonics as individual instruction and made it more of a whole group approach incorporated in other skills.
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