Blog 6

This chapter reminded of the question,"What does it mean to understand something"? I think the chapter was effective in showing how students learn and the different terms for learning. I really liked the Roaf was not Bloopy' example. First of all, this would be a great activity to do with students. It would be a great way to associate meaning to words and practice their word identification skills. This example shows how we can give words meaning and also how we learn words. It ties in with the Context Plus chart. I really like this method. It is kind of like a KWL chart. Students write what they know about the words and what they think of when they see it, then they work to find the meaning of the word. The way we learn is interesting. Now we associate new things to familiar things in order to remember or learn them, like learning a new language.