Students, take a moment and reflect on your early reading experiences, indicate if you enjoyed reading, if it was meaningful to you, just expound on your viewpoint of reading then and now. How has reading influenced how you teach children to read in your classroom.

Discuss resources/strategies that you currently use or have used to promote a positive early reading experience for your students.

Also, incorporate the answers to the questions listed below in your response.

· What is reading?

· Do you remember learning how to read?

· How did you learn to read?

· What did your teacher do to help you learn how to read?

· What did your parent(s) do to help you learn to read?

· What reading skills do you now have that you didn't last year?

· What did one of your teacher's do that helped you to learn to read?

3 page paper needed