Focus: Ch. 4

This chapter really made me reflect on my current reading instruction. I've never been fully satisfied with what I've been doing as far as it goes. I often find both myself and my students bored with the stories the basal provides for curriculum use. I dream about creating these elaborate units based solely on amazing novels but there just hasn't been enough time in my career so far to be able to make my dream a reality. Based off what I saw in my student teaching, I see how much more meaningful the use of novels are to students and how much more engagement there is in the classroom during that instruction time. I'd love to see my class reading 15-20 novels a year as mentioned in the chapter!