I Read It, but I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani 9

                                                           Chapter 9
**FRUITS**
"Reading teachers do more than measure comprehension. With direct explicit instruction that demonstrates what good readers do, struggling readers can be taught how to comprehend the text better."(108)

"Strategies overlap. I don't neglect one that has been previously taught when I begin a new one, and I don't continue focusing on one that students have mastered."(109)

**WEEDS**
The main problem that I had with this book was that certain ideas were constantly repeated from chapter to chapter. After finishing the book, I realized that it was done for a reason. She repeated herself because the students in her class are not the only learners that she has to educate. She spells her strategies out and she gives examples and models of everything that she does so that we can teach our students in the same way that we were taught.


**BASKET**
This whole book is a keeper. Regardless of how bad the economy gets I will never sell this book because I can constantly refer to it and possibly build my own effective strategies that may be based on her principals and techniques.