Nov 3

The students are really involved in the story we're reading! I am so impressed -- they seem to enjoy reading if you find something they're interested in, even though many of them say they don't read. I do think we're doing well with the book, going through it slowly. They don't even seem to mind listening to a chapter on CD when we've already read it in class, or vice versa. We used the small groups to review the story. The students really struggled with opinion questions. I know we talk about Bloom's Taxonomy incessantly, but this shows they really are not familiar with higher-order questions that require them to think. In my opinion this is a bad thing about special education, that we spend so much time dwelling on the factual that the real "thinking" is lost.