What is Reading?

Today, two other colleagues and I were talking about what makes a struggling reader. My response was, "it depends on your definition of reading."

Here's the situation: a colleague's student (we're taking a literacy assessment class and tutoring elementary students) is struggling with oral fluency. Even though he is having issues reading aloud, he has good comprehension. Colleague #2 says that this student is a struggling reader because he struggles with one aspect of reading.

What do you think? Should he be labeled a struggling reader?


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Trouble with interview questions

So thus far, my research team's research questions are as follows:

The trouble I'm having is that in writing the interview questions, they all seem to focus on questions 3 and 4 (yes, I know they're not numbered. Count them). I think the first question gets answered through document analysis in conjunction with data we collect for questions 3 and 4. I'm honestly not sure how we're going to answer the second. Maybe, again, in students' answers to the interview questions, but indirectly so. And then four and five. And I've thought of some questions while writing this post, so I'm going to get back to that.

Things to work on

We were reading articles about bullying in qualitative research class last night and through the discussion surrounding these articles I came up with two things I need to work on in terms of how I read. First, I need to learn to read literature reviews for the gaps in the literature. Second, I need to learn to notice researchers subjectivities--and how their biases appear in their research.


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