Journal Club- Teachers and content area reading



Teachers and content area reading: Attitudes, beliefs, and change

This journal was very interesting and gave me many thoughts on teaching reading in the various content areas. It explored the idea of teaching reading in Math, Social Studies, and Science and how pre-service and in-service teachers feel about doing this. While reading this article, I was able to make many connections to my experiences in LLED this semester. This class has been really helpful in shaping my beliefs about teaching reading in the math classroom. I came into this class not wanting or knowing how to teach reading strategies in my future math (or Social Studies) classroom, but I am leaving this class with a desire to take on the challenge of teaching reading strategies to my math students in order to help them solve word problems and read other texts about math concepts. Even though this journal discusses the importance of teaching reading in all subjects, one of my criticisms about it is that there are limited mentions of math. In addition, there are limited opportunities at UGA to take a class on reading strategies in a math classroom or to have a tutoring opportunity with a math student regarding teaching reading. I think either of these things would have improved my experience of this class or reading this article, but I know it would be difficult with the limited number of teachers we have at UGA. Overall, I have come to see that reading is important in all content areas, even math, but I am still having a hard time knowing specific ways to teach pre, during, and post reading strategies in my math content area.
Word Count: 278

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