The Book Whisperer; Chapter 2 Chapter two of The Book Whisperer was full of new information I had never thought of. One piece of new information I didn’t know about was that there are three different types of readers. When I would think about reading, I thought there were students who couldn’t read very well and then there were students who could read. In this section of the book, it talks about the three different types of readers being developing readers, dormant readers, and underground readers. It makes sense that teachers don’t want to use the name struggling readers for kids because that is focusing on the negative instead of the positive; developing readers is a much better name for these kids who just need a little more attention when it comes to reading. I also didn’t think there was a difference between readers who were good at reading. It now makes sense to me that some kids can read well but just read for the homework and not for fun; and then there are the readers who love to read and will read for homework and for their free time. I liked in this chapter that it says that even though the really good readers read at school and at home, they still need to be able to apply their knowledge from the book and others areas for school. One last piece of information I liked from this chapter is when the teacher explains that she now knows not to preach to her students about reading anymore; she just listens to what the students need and not tell them what she thinks they need.
Chapter two of The Book Whisperer was full of new information I had never thought of. One piece of new information I didn’t know about was that there are three different types of readers. When I would think about reading, I thought there were students who couldn’t read very well and then there were students who could read. In this section of the book, it talks about the three different types of readers being developing readers, dormant readers, and underground readers. It makes sense that teachers don’t want to use the name struggling readers for kids because that is focusing on the negative instead of the positive; developing readers is a much better name for these kids who just need a little more attention when it comes to reading. I also didn’t think there was a difference between readers who were good at reading. It now makes sense to me that some kids can read well but just read for the homework and not for fun; and then there are the readers who love to read and will read for homework and for their free time. I liked in this chapter that it says that even though the really good readers read at school and at home, they still need to be able to apply their knowledge from the book and others areas for school. One last piece of information I liked from this chapter is when the teacher explains that she now knows not to preach to her students about reading anymore; she just listens to what the students need and not tell them what she thinks they need.