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Reflections About My Second Year Of Teaching Reading, Molly Melloy Recker
Reflections About My Second Year Of Teaching Reading, Molly Melloy Recker
Graduate Research Papers
On the second day of school, I realized that four students had entered my first grade classroom – reading. As that school day concluded, at the beginning of my second year of teaching, I remember sitting down at my desk, and thinking to myself, "Now what?" These were not the students I was expecting.
In this paper I explain how I adapted my reading beliefs and teaching practices to meet the challenge the four students posed to me. I describe each student, and their reading behaviors. Next, I discuss perspectives about early literacy, in order to examine my beliefs in …