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Frank  Smith  states  in  his  book,  “Unspeakable  Acts  Unnatural  
Practices”,  that  reading  is  the  most  natural  activity  in  the  world  
(page  9)
...
 and  that  this  is  something  that  we  all  
do  from  the  day  we  are  born
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   They  only  begin  to  
struggle  when  someone  begins  to  instruct  them  on  how  to  read
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   Everyone  learns  different  things  at  different  
paces  and  at  different  times  in  their  life,  reading  is  the  same,  not  
everyone  is  ready  to  learn  to  read  at  a  set  age
...
   Library  was  my  least  favorite  specialty  class  to  go  to
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   I  didn’t  want  it,  I  wanted  to  spend  my  time  
playing  outside,  or  playing  the  piano,  not  stuck  in  a  chair  reading
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   It  was  a  constant  “I’ll  be  right  there”  when  
it  as  time  to  eat  dinner  or  do  the  chores
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   As  much  as  I  would  love  to  
say  that  we  need  to  let  young  children  decide  when  they  want  to  
start  to  read,  it  is  hard  to  agree  with  this  as  a  teacher
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”    Children  need  to  learn  to  read  and  write  letters  in  first  
grade  or  they  don’t  move  on  to  second  grade,  etc
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   As  a  Reading  teacher,  
it  is  recommended  that  our  students  participate  in  silent  reading  
at  least  45  minutes  a  week
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     As  a  teacher  all  I  can  do  is  provide  a  

multitude  of  different  books  and  hope  that  they  catch  the  
students  interest
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Frank  Smtih  goes  on  to  say  that  when  we  participate  in  silent  
reading,  which  is  the  normal  and  natural  way  to  read,  you  move  
directly  from  the  words  to  their  combined  meaning,  with  no  
analysis  or  transformation  into  any  aspect  of  spoken  language  
(page  54)
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   First  you  have  to  understand  what  you  are  
reading  then  you  have  to  say  it
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   I  personally  see  this  struggle  in  my  own  
fourth  grade  class
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   I  have  several  students  that  hate  this  DRA,  
which  shocked  me  because  they  love  to  read  in  my  class
...
   
When  I  performed  their  DRA  it  took  them  a  long  time  to  read  to  
me  the  section  from  the  book
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   Not  it  makes  more  sense  as  to  why  
these  students  struggle
...
   
It  is  putting  the  sounds  to  the  words  they  are  reading  and  
speaking  them  out  loud  that  is  the  struggle
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   The  book  talks  
about  a  young  boy  named  John  who  needs  more  time  in  order  to  
complete  tasks
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   It  then  goes  on  to  explain  that  why  is  
this  boy  and  his  brain  any  different  than  our  daily  lives
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   If  

we  spend  every  day  worrying  that  these  things  will  happen  we  will  
spend  our  days  doing  nothing
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   Some  children’s  development  is  later  
than  others,  some  children  aren’t  ready  to  do  certain  things  when  
other  children  are
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Teachers  get  frustrated  that  their  students  are  behind
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 I  have  17  ESL  students  in  my  4th  grade  
class
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   I  stress  about  it,  and  
work  really  hard  to  get  my  kids  on  the  same  level,  and  then  
continue  to  stress  because  they  aren’t  on  the  same  level
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   I  have  tried  my  
best  to  make  reading  fun  for  them
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   I  let  them  sit  
wherever  they  want  in  the  classroom  and  many  of  them  have  
found  their  “special  spot”  that  they  sit  in  every  time
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   My  
students  have  learned  to  love  to  read
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   These  students  struggle  daily  with  coming  from  
home,  where  only  a  different  language  is  spoken,  to  school  where  
only  English  is  spoken
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   Most  of  these  students  have  no  one  at  home  
who  reads  to  them  in  English  or  can  help  them  with  anything  we  
do  in  school,  it’s  no  wonder  they  are  behind
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I  am  starting  to  learn  that  teaching  doesn’t  always  take  into  
account  the  students  that  are  doing  the  learning
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