Chapter 8 post

The idea of post reading strategies is unique to education because of the wide spectrum of what people will take from a text with them for the rest of their life. I like the idea of scales because of how it gets the student to feel associated or involved with the text. When a student places their opinion on the scale they are joining a team of people that feel the same way they do; this is a great way of covertly teaching students to stand up for what they believe in. I also think it is very benfical that they grade the student on how well they defend their argument, this will force students to learn the art of the spoken word. I personally think that debate skills should be stressed more in language arts classroom, because it is one's ability to make their point, convince and orate that lends to one's success. Also, I think it would be great if students were advanced enough to at the end of the book figure out the scales on their own, to show that they understand the different perspectives that people might have about the book, and the underlying questions the text begs. Somebody Wanted But So Seems like it would definitely teach the gist of a story but would go no deeper than the surface level. I think the It Says I say exercise would be great for getting students to think critically about characters motivations and help them make inferences about the text. My own feeling is that after a text is taught the teacher should give the student reasons to remember the text and inspire the students to look for the morals and situations from the text.