I gotta have more cowbell!
The reality of education is that not all students learn in the same way. Some students may be visual learners, while others may be auditory. Some students are even tactile learners, meaning that they need to physically touch things to fully activate their understanding.
What does this mean for reading comprehension? Well, it means that if a student is having trouble extracting meaning from a text, they might need to be presented the information in some modality other than textual. For some students, seeing or hearing the text being acted out or performed can be a huge aid to helping them understand. Luckily, the content area of English is wonderful for this. Many novels and plays over the years have been re-produced or fashioned into televion shows and movies. Using these as an aid to teach text in the classroom can give visual and auditory learners a better frame of reference for their memory. Just for an example, here is a You Tube clip from To Kill a Mockingbird, a text commonly read in many High Schools. Showing students this video could give them a visual memory for re-call about the text.
michelewithonel said,
December 13, 2007 at 10:55 pm
you make a very good point