The most exciting part of this article to me is how useful and applicable it is to our literature unit lesson plans. This also connects heavily to Readicide, which is a book I am reading for another class. One thing I know now is that as teachers we need to spark an interest in reading for our students, and helping students connect that to good writing. Building a scaffold for our students is so important to help them be successful readers without reducing reading material for students who are struggling.
A couple interesting points from the text: Allowing students to make a connection between the text and their personal life. This helps students become invested in the reading. Also, teaching students how to look at and evaluate and see their biases from an objective point of view. Setting purposes to reading can help students to have a goal to fulfill, but it can also hinder students ability to focus on the reading as a whole.
I never have liked the idea of teaching students how to skim read- I feel like this isn't completely necessary to all students.
One issue that was brought up in the article was vocabulary, and I feel strongly, and I am sure research does as well, that this is connected to good reading and writing. We probably pick up at least half of our advanced vocabulary from reading, but it might be harder to connect to the real world than picking it up from conversation.
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