Chapter 1

I thought chapter one of this book was a wonderful foundation for what I am sure we will be learning this semester. The belief that that we as future teachers need to instill the love of reading into our students is so true. It is an essential building block in their education future, and it is a love that they will hopefully always carry with them. We also all have to believe in each and every one of our students, every child is born with the capability of learning. These children are sponges waiting to soak up the knowledge we can offer them in whatever way we can.
I also thought that it was an excellent point that we need to set good examples to our students and express our own love for reading. Also to give the children the access to a vast choice of books. I think that I am going to start my own collection now; I still have two years of school to go so hopefully I will have a relatively good selection by then.
When I looked up authors I thought it might be a good idea for me to look up authors that gear their books toward middle school age children since that it what age group I plan on one day teaching. I also know it would be a good idea to familiarize myself with this age groups possible taste in books. So I found a few that interested me: Jeff Kinney, J.K. Rowling (I am embarrassed to admit that I have yet to read her books), and Kathy Applet.