This last class has made me think more about front loading for reading. I think it would have helped me a considerable amount in school. My comprehension skills are low, even now. It takes me more time to process the information and I find it difficult to answer questions directly after reading something. It was interesting to work through a process to compensate for this problem.
I wasn’t sold on the vocabulary portion until the end of the activity. If it had been me in school, I would have checked that I could use each word in a sentence. However, while reading the document, those words popped out at me. The tea party exercise (I would dub it Social Studies Social) was also and interesting activity. I was very focused on hearing all of the sentences. It also helped me pick out key information in the document. I wonder how a student with social anxiety would react to that activity.
Everything we did before reading, benefited me while I was reading. I was able to focus on meaning and wonder about the information that I was taking in. I think looking at the words after reading, would help a student to visualize how much they learned in that activity. I wonder where my comprehension would be if I had been taught this way.