BBR Chapter 7

This chapter addressed a crucial topic that pertains to students learning. In chapter 7, BBR discusses strategies to develop student's independent learning abilities. It is important for students to be able to work with others but it is also important for students to be able to learn on their own. In college, students will be required to learn much more material on their own than they are used to. This will aslo be crucial when studying for exams. 

I believe that the PLAE was a great strategy for students to learn to use. PLAE stands for preplan, list, activate, and evaluate. My favorite characteristic about this strategy is the fact that it requires students to address all three parts of reading. They must preplan before they read to get ideas about what they are going to read. Many students do nothing for pre-reading. Then they are also required to use the strategy while they are reading in order to increase the opportunity to comprehend their reading. After reading, the students must reflect and evaluate what they have just read. Being active in all three parts of reading will most likely increase the chance of retaining what was read.