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Chapter five resinated with me in a few different way. First When reading if you don't have a clear purpose of why you are reading you will loose focus and begin to drift. I don't quite when I realized that I do this myself and my reading skills are far above those that my students have, so of course how can I expect that they will stay on task if they don't have the tools and a specific purpose (and grasp that purpose). I think that having students make their own questions on the readings and create their own is great and I began to use ths approach already. I jumped in with both feet with two separate classrooms seniors and 7th and 8th graders with mixed results.

Chapter 6 How do students accesses prior knowledge in Social Studies? Many of my students will compare and contrast new material or themes in History that they have read primary documents on. Then they are often asked to predict what happens next. Based on prior knowledge you need