Reading Principles

Delineate your essential beliefs about the reading and the teaching of reading and list these.

I believe_______________(principle or belief about reading, about learning reading, or about the teaching of reading) _______________.

 

For each belief, provide rationale from the research you have read or that you can find, from your own experience, or/or from your expereince in tutoring.

I believe (belief from above) because___________________(rationale for belief)______________________.

 

For each belief, list the things that that belief would lead you to do in the classroom.

Because I believe (belief from above), I will do the following in my classroom:

(Freire (1970) noted that reflection should be inextricably lined with action (praxis). Without action there is unfilfilled reflection and without reflection there is only runaway activism. List the things that you will do in your classroom based on your beliefs and experience.)

 

See your instructor's attempt at teaching beliefs, constructed in 1982.