I absolutely loved our Teaching Reading with Literature course. I learned so many valuable things that I will use to guide my future practice. I will definitely keep our textbook as a future reference. Beers filled this book with numerous suggestions/strategies to use with struggling readers which will be especially beneficial as a future intervention specialist who will be working with struggling readers on the regular. I have already used several of these strategies in my field experience, and they truly are helpful. I have already bookmarked pages with strategies that I found especially useful. It will also be great having our blog posts as a reference to flip back to. Beers is specific and detailed, all while making her textbook enjoyable to read. This will definitely be one textbook I add to my library.
I also love all the rich young adult literature we encountered in this course. I literally have a list of at least 20 books I am asking for as a Christmas gift. I really enjoyed our book review assignments with different types of novels. It was interesting doing an author study, also. I love how Dr. Pytash gave us choice in our assignments, as I think this is critical to our young developing readers also. Throughout the course I learned many vital things I will transfer into my future practice. I recommend this course to any student looking to pursue a career in the education department.
I totally agree about all the young adult literature we encountered. There are so many books that I am still looking forward to reading. Some find it funny that I would want to read books written for teenagers but I find them interesting and they allow us to become connected with those we will be teaching.
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