Chapter 4

I like how chapter four brings the point that there is not just one right answer and that we as readers have a sort of "contract" between each other. I feel this is important to remember when we are teaching a class full of students. Too often we as teachers want a child to read a story that we have read and look at it in the same way that we did. We want them to answer the questions we provide for them exactly the way we interpreted the reading. Reading is just that, an interpretation. There will be many different interpretations by the students that differ from your own. I do feel it is important to sit down with the children and discuss what they thought about the reading because this will open a whole different approach to what you thought. It is amazing how once you hear someone else take on a story how you look at it. I also feel it is good to read the same book more them once because every time you read it, you will learn something else that you had no idea was in the reading.