In a message dated 9/16/2006 4:18:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do the rest of you fit in all the skills "stuff" while still teaching the thinking and reasoning strategies? We had a reading consultant come in this year and I almost stood up and applauded when she told our group that we must FIRST teach our students the strategies of comprehension BEFORE we can expect them to do the skills. So many people on my staff use them synomously(sp?), saying the skill instruction is their comprehension instruction. What I try my best to do is first have them independently using one of more of the strategies and then show them how those strategies help us to find the main idea, or to think about the author's purpose and why they chose their words, or to identify the causes and effects; it just becomes a part of the deep discussion as we become involved in and around text. Terry/3/Fl _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
