Chapter 8

While this chapter was important, it really seemed quite irrelevant. Yes we need to be able to teach students who have English as a second or third or ever fourth language. But most of us wilkl be teaching in Maine or some other overly white state. The book talks about helping them learn, we don't know anything about "them". But it really is something to think about, what if we do encounter students from cultures so different from our own. Not just in reading, but every other area, just the same as wanting to know all the student's history, we should want to understand their culture as well so that we as teachers might be able to be more effective for the students.