Reading Response October 31st

Revealing the Teacher-as-Reader in Response to Students' Writing
Summary:

Sperling dives into the class of an English teacher. Going into a class and doing observation of the class as a whole as well as the relationship between the teacher and student in the class. Sperling looks at the ways a teacher looks at a student writing. Some of the things she looks at are interpretive, the social, the emotional, the evaluative, and the pedagogical. Sperling says that these are some of the stand points a teacher should have when reader a students paper. Later in the article, a pentagon is shown on how to break these aspects up even;y to by affective when reading a students paper. Sperling suggests that teachers apply these things into their classroom and discuss with their students the different aspects the teacher will be looking at.

Response:
The chapter was a little confusing but eventually I get the hang of it. I think it would help students out if the teacher talked to them about the grading. This goes back to when we were talking about audiance and who students should write to. The more students know about how they are being graded, the easier it is going to be for that student to write a good paper. there are some good stand points on how the teacher should read a paper and I agree that sperlings suggestions could help in many classrooms.