Focus - Chapter 4

After reading this chapter, I have to agree with Kari.  It was hard to figure out how this applied to me being a speech pathologist that doesn't teach reading.  The one piece of the chapter that stood out to me though was focusing at least one day a week on reading current articles.  Looking back on my high school career, I have to admit that for some reason I checked out on reading and only read the novels to complete be able to complete the assignments/tests.  I feel that this was in large part was due to the fact that I had a hard time connecting to the novels to what was going on in my life at that time.  I do believe that if my teachers would have focused at least some of the reading on current events, I would have been able to connect more to reading at that age.