Thursday, November 11, 2010

Section 3 Summary

I thought Sharla's response was interesting because I also tell many personal stories to my students in class. It seems the more personal the story is, the more students remember. When we are teaching reading comprehension strategies like questioning, connections, and now visualizing, students want a picture of our personal lives so they can connect with us more. I remember being in a training one day and the instructor gave us two stories (one that was a story of a man who was having a medical problem and the other story telling us a bunch of information and directions of what to do when going on trip). Which one was easier to remember? Of course, the story of the man. Somehow most of us had some kind of connection and couldn't remember anything from the other story. I love the part in the book where it says "Storytelling doesn't replace analytical thinking, but supplements it by enabling us to imagine new perspectives and new worlds". This is so true because we can still be very left brain thinkers but the stories we tell and hear can enhance the right brain. Everything has a story and we should take time to read and listen.

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