Visualization in the reading

The last 2 sections in You Gotta Be The Book also talk about visualization. The author says many less proficient readers do not naturally and spontaneously experience literature as participants. When I read a book, I would imagine and visualize the world naturally and this is why I can enjoy a book but at the same time there are some students who they can do it naturally and this book tells us how to make students able to visualize the world in the book. In chapter 5, the author says if you want to know how to teach students, get to know them. To make students read, you have to know what each student likes to do and look for what would work for each student. I really agree this point. Though in the last of this book the author talks about some big issues of teaching, I think teachers have to think of strategies that work for each student. I mean, at least there would be some students who don’t want to read and in that case, you have to work with this student. To make those students read, you have to know them. Kae doesn’t have enough English skills and this is why she doesn’t like reading. However she reads comic books a lot and her reading skills get better. Then the author realizes reading comic books also helps students. Usually comic books have pictures and this makes it easy to tie up words and images. This also shows how important to visualize the world in your brain while you are reading.

If there are some students who are left behind other students, teachers should work with those students. As the author says it’s hard to make plans that fit every student but still teachers should care each student.

why hate reading?

Why students hate reading? I thought just they don’t like it. Why they don’t like it? Because….

I’ve read you gotta be the book and the author says that students who don’t like reading or not good at reading can’t make a story world in their brain. This makes sense to me. When I read a book and if it’s not fun and enjoyable, I can’t make an imaginary story world in my head but if it’s enjoyable, I make it naturally and it makes me read more and more. The author used drama to teach students to think about it. At first students says the book doesn’t say because they don’t make information together and don’t imagine the story world but through the activity, they gradually come to get the way of thinking and they come to read. This is incredible. I thought there is no way to make students who don’t like reading like to read. We can such have such students read but it is really hard to make them come to like reading. In this book, author says you have to live the story and I really agree with this. To make the story world in your brain and enjoy the story refers living in the story. Drama helps make students think in that way. The book talks about three students’ changes and it is dramatically. 

When I was in middle school or high school there were some students don’t like reading and it is the same as everywhere. At that time, I thought they just don’t like reading and the teachers rarely care about them. They came to not read more and more. I think these methods help teachers who struggle with students who don’t read. I don’t think it helps every student but at least it is worth trying.