How Reading Works

                "The children who are not learning to read are often confused, frustrated, and slowly giving up hope on themselves as readers." This is why it is important as teachers to notice when their students are falling behind as readers and how to best help them. There are several way to make sure struggling readers are being acknowledged and being helped. You have to know about the reading process, your students and how they best learn.
               As teachers it is important to know yourself and what you think about reading and how it works. "In order to advocate for these struggling readers, we believe that more teachers need to become knowledgeable about the reading process and hope to support children as the construct a network of strategies." The reading process is a compiled set of processes that are all going on at the same time. It is important as teachers to know each of these processes and to know when one of their students is lacking or struggling with one r more of these processes. "How a teacher understands the reading process determines how he or she assesses, plans, instructs, and supports readers." That is why it is so important for teachers to understand the reading process, because it shapes their classroom and how they teach in it.
             Knowing your students is one of the most important things to do as a teacher. It is important to know your students and how they learn so they can benefit from your teaching as much as possible. Knowing your students ZPD is an essential part of knowing your students and where they are at in their learning development. Students learn best when they are being taught within their ZPD, so it only makes since that teachers would know their students' ZPD so they would know how to teach each of them best.