LSSL 5385- Chapter 15 Textbook Reflection and Summary

With this list of questions, Peck offers us a tool to use when guiding students. These questions will help the students understand the text in a more critical way. They can be used for a discussion group or as a reflection. Rather than just identifying the usual elements found in text, I think these guiding questions will allow the reader to interact more with the text. This would be a great resource to include in student's reading response journal to use regularly.

As librarians/educators, it is our job to increase literacy and foster a love of reading. I think the way to achieve this is not only encouraging reading for pleasure, but also teaching students how to navigate through text, no matter what the genre. Creating critical thinking questions such as these for all genres would be beneficial. I have always considered that my job was to not only prepare my students for the right now, but for the future. Helping them understand text connections and complex thinking while reading, will be beneficial throughout their education and beyond.

It would also be a great extension activity to have students create their own questions that they can use when evaluating and comprehending text.