Tovani Chapter 6

In chapter 6, Tovani once again begins her anecdotal stories about the places she has taught reading. She encourages students thinking and challengeing not only text but pictures as well. She gets the students to begin asking questions about articles that they don't care about, and also gives more note taking strategies. Apart from the classic highligher and sticky notes, she describes quad entry journals, double entry diaries, and question recording. In this chapter there are many good strategies to remember, as well as stories to remember them by. The story that begins the chapter revolves around a picture. The picture is a fake of a shark, bridge, and a navy seal. Without saying more than "what do you think", Tovani gets the students to challenge the picture, recall previous knowledge, and question the validity of the picture. We as adults do this all the time. Any article we are given, be it school related or personal intrest, we evaluate the valitidy of it and its importance in our lives. Students do not and will not, we teach it to them. I feel like I keep saying that in all of these journal entries, that we do and they don't. I realize that is the point of these journal entries, learning strategies and understanding the things we already do that they need to do to be successful. I especially liked the area on tools for holding thinking in the reading. I agree with Tovani in that highlighters get old and sticky notes fail to be successful after a while. However, students need to learn how to use these tools. These tools are all instruments to keep us engaged in the reading and to help recall this information after we understand it. This is especially challenging for me, I am terrible at writing sticky notes. I have always been successful at understanding text and highlighting all the important parts to me. Give me a week, and I will forget everything about what I read prior. I need to study everything and keep it current. I feel like that is one thing missing from this chapter, or perhaps even the whole book. What about studying? How does reading encorporate into studying. Or is it just the traditional note studying cramming? I would like to see something about review reading in this book sometime.