Section Two: Investigate the Literacy
Background and Current Literacy practices of student.
I’m thinking about changing the
student I want to do a case study on because I found another student who seems
to be an avid reader but shows more interesting behaviors in and outside of
class. So, I am going to do the first part of this case study with him
later. His name is Jamal, and he is
always reading in and outside of class.
Unlike the previous student that I had chosen to do my case study with,
he seems to be engaged in the reading that he chose to read only. He loves reading, he said. And, he reads for hours at home too. However, he doesn’t participate in class
very much, or should I say at all.
According to my MT’s description of the student, “he is just not
motivated.”
My first encounter with him was in
the hallway after the last school bell rang in the afternoon. When every other student was running out the
door to go home, he came up to me and said “did you know that not a lot of
people know Humpty Dumpty is an egg?” So I told him “Yeah, I realized that
recently too. I just didn’t come to that
realization when I was younger for some reason.
How did you come to that thought by the way?” And, he answered, “Oh, I
was reading a milk carton this morning.”
I found it really interesting to hear his answer especially after I did
a small activity in my Teaching Reading class in which we talked about ‘what is
a text.’ And, he is always reading whenever I find him. He is reading during lunch in the cafeteria,
and he is reading even during class. He
seems to be very much engaged in reading activities when we are reading a class
assigned book in ELA class, but he doesn’t seem to be equally engaged in other
activities that are not reading-involved.
So then, he would go right back to reading his own book.
I saw him reading Harry Potter and
the Deathly Hollows a week ago, and he was half way done with it. And then, I saw him a couple of days ago
reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. So, I asked him why he is reading backwards,
and he told me “I’ve read this book before, but I’m reading it again because I
like this one.” So, he’s even REREADING!
I’m just fascinated to find out more about him, about his writing and reading,
about his life, about his personality, about his interests other than reading,
about how he feels about other things and why he reads, etc.
(I
couldn’t gather all the data I need for this second session because I chose to
go to my placement on Wednesday and Friday this week, but I will figure out how
to find the time to ask him all the questions I need to ask for the first
session and the second as well when I go in this Wednesday.)
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