T I P Chapters 5, 6, & 7

I found the material in these chapters interesting fromt the perspective of how as I was reading, I noticed some of the theories as being evident in the special education class I just finished teaching this school. The theories I see the most relate to is Holdaway's (1979) Theory of Literacy Development and Paiget's Theory of Cognitive Development (1969).
As a Resource Pull-out teacher I was exposed to a wide vareity of special needs students with varying degrees of reading difficulties. In hind-sight I remember those particular IEP meeting with parents that explained to that they began reading more and more with their child after they realized that their child had a reading disability. These particular children were more open and receptive to my approaches to teach and enhance reading and over the months became my better readers. Therefore I find myself relating and agreeing with Holdaway's theory.
I was reminded of Paiget's theory when I thought back to the approach to designing my lessons to address those students that were in the 6th thru 8th grade but lacked the key building blocks necessary to reading fluency that they should have been given at the various stages of their academic development. So I also find myself agreeing with the Paiget's overall theory.
I only slightly related to the Emergent Literacy Theory of Clay (1985) and Morrow (2001) and and Taylor's Family Literacy Theory (1983, but I did not find myself agreeing at all with the Maturation Theory of Morphet & Washburne (1931) at all.