Personal Reading Philosophy

          THE THOUGHTS OF A TEACHER

          My mother always told me from a young age that, “reading is fundamental”. As I got older I realized how fundamental reading and comprehension were to my success in school. There was always an assignment that caused me to read a book and write a ten page paper and I realized that Spark Notes could only help me with so much when the paper had to include an overview of the book, what was the overall meaning of the book, what did I get out of the book, and how would I apply certain situations in the book to my life. 

            In my classroom my motto will be, “reading is fundamental”. Reading requires a person to know what a letter is and what sound that letter makes. When a student learns the basics the student can progress to blending the sounds and letters together to make words and eventually those simple two to three letter words become eight to ten letter words and the student is reading.  

            As a human race we read to acquire knowledge about sports, health, beauty, food, education, and etc. According to Gunning reading is,” the process in which we construct meaning from print, without meaning there is no reading .” Confucius once said, “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance”. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and being a person of color it is more important that we are reading but most importantly that we are comprehending what we are reading because it is crucial to our success in this society.