10-4 Good Buddy

"East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'
We gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there"

Jerry Reed - East Bound & Down Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

Now that I have you singing that song, I will try to move on down the road. We are well on our way to discovery and learning in Education 338. We've got much to cover in a short period of time. 

My biggest takeaway was on the idea of front loading and text frames. The author of Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, Doug Buehl could have used front loading by giving us the CB terminology for trucker talk before the scrambled sentence on page 13 of the text. It would have helped us comprehend what he was saying. It didn't because he was making a case for the idea of front loading. If my father had read this years ago, (he passed 3 years ago) he would have answered it back. He was an over the road truck driver. He would have brought his personal experience to the table and understood perfectly. This has me thinking about how no two people bring the same experience to the reading table. 

Here is some vocab we talked about: front loading, lexile score/ lexile levels, cold reads, close reading, qualitative factors, quantitative factors and reader/task considerations, fact pyramids and essential questions.

My favorite quotes:

 “And no two people will have exactly the same comprehension of a text because no two people will be reading a text under exactly the same conditions.” Pg. 6

We all bring different backgrounds, attitudes, experiences to our reading situation. I like the story that Dr. Steffes told about her mother and the idea of Pluto being a planet in our solar system.

“Having knowledge is one thing; using it another.” Page 13

How can we get our students to extrapolate meaning of words in text? We get them connecting what they know about the text (theme) and build from that point. (KWL and various strategies)

Roger?
over and out