Chapter Two: Heather Alexander

Chapter Two focuses on how the lack of challenging material available to students is detrimental to them. So much of the focus in schools is preparation for standardized testing. This focus has forced teachers to remove challenging reading and writing in order to provide content that will be tested on some sort of standardized test. This is my first year teaching based on my experience this year our main goal is to prepare students for the end of course test. The content standards are so vast for science that there is barely enough time to cover all of the material. This leaves very little time to integrate literacy into the classroom. SSR is a good thing. I do believe that if you allow students the time then they can make reading a daily habit.