Instructional-level Social Studies Trade Books September 28, 2009

This article was interesting and informative.  I have seen similar situations in which a text is used that some if not most students cannot follow because it is too hard for them.  I think it is very important for teachers to understand and realize there are different levels of readers in their classroom.  One text will probably never work for an entire class of twenty or more students.  Also, the article touches on how reading text that students don’t understand will also teach them to dislike reading in general.  This article is a great resource for helping teachers learn how to locate resources for struggling readers.  Also, the tables at the end give awesome examples of children’s literature that can be used and they also give the topic that the book could be used for in the classroom.  That is an amazing resource to have since teachers know they will be dealing with different level students.  Overall, I think this article is amazing.  It is very informative and gives wonderful examples.  It also opens teacher’s eyes that they will be dealing with students of all kinds of levels and that sometimes you have to branch out from the standard text to get all your students interested.  Reading is important and if students don’t know how to read what they are given, then they will learn to dislike reading.

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