While reading through the given text, an individual may
access their prior knowledge and build onto it about reading in other subject
areas besides reading and language arts. I not only learned from the chapter I
read, but I was also able to intertwine the content from the text to my own personal
experience throughout my years in school. One of my biggest issues during grade
school was reading comprehension. I would read through a whole chapter in a
book and struggle to remember what I had just read. I learned that I had to
reread certain texts to understand it to my best ability. Rereading is one of
the many strategies this chapter mentioned to help students comprehend text.
One of the best ideas the author brought to my attention was the idea of
presenting schemas to the class to open their minds about the topic they were
to read on. This makes me question whether or not I would have succeeded more
in school if I had an initial schema to relate to while reading a text.
I presume
reading a science textbook would come at more of an ease for me with the prior
knowledge already being set up in the mind. However, what could one say in a
math course, when learning about algebra, that could help students out? I
believe I would have to use one of the many strategies given in the text. Some
of the strategies that could be helpful in a math class could be to visualize what
is written in the problem or connect the problem to an event in your life. As difficult
as it may seem to “teach” reading in a non-reading subject, it is the most
beneficial to a student’s success in the classroom.
I presume
reading a science textbook would come at more of an ease for me with the prior
knowledge already being set up in the mind. However, what could one say in a
math course, when learning about algebra, that could help students out? I
believe I would have to use one of the many strategies given in the text. Some
of the strategies that could be helpful in a math class could be to visualize what
is written in the problem or connect the problem to an event in your life. As difficult
as it may seem to “teach” reading in a non-reading subject, it is the most
beneficial to a student’s success in the classroom.
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I really like how you discussed the issue of using prior knowledge when learning the more difficult subjects such as math and science. To answer your question about what could be said in a math class when learning about algebra to help students engage prior knowledge would be just discussing what the students already know about order of operations, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing by fractions. This allows them to get their minds thinking and then introduce them to the new material. I also agree reading needs to be taught in all content-area classes, not just ELA.
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