Feb
22
What Does a SHOE Have to Do with Reading???
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One of our reading lessons involved something really unusual: shoes. Mrs. Self compared her boot to Gray’s sneaker. She then asked the class to take notes on how the shoes were similar and different. Everyone came up with different (and interesting!) responses!
We learned that readers’ schemas are a lot like the shoes we wear. We wear different shoes in different situations. The shoes we wear “experience” different elements of our lives. Readers’ schemas are all different from each other. One person’s schema is very different from another person’s schema. That doesn’t mean that one person is smarter or better than another….it just means they are different.
Different readers bring different schemas to what they read. This, in turn, helps them to connect with what they read.
We then compared and contrasted ourselves with other students in the classroom. We made Venn Diagrams where we explored how we are alike, and how we are different. We also explored how our schemas are different from each other….and how that affects how we interpret what we read.
All three of us have schema about soda!