Lori, Very well put! I noticed, as Lindsey mentioned, that there are ways that take modeling a step further and really allow the student to understand and use the strategy at hand.
I am also interested in going deeper and the how's AND why's of each strategy can vary depending on our connections with the text. I am wondering, as you mentioned the connection you have with a text really has to be shared with students. I think with children's literature it's also important to think of ways to relate the text with real-life or even worldly situations. I think it's wonderful that we can take messages from a children's book and make it hold up with life's lessons. Sharing these types of things with middle/high school students is of interest to me. I feel like sometimes it's easier on certain levels to get them to relate, but the sharing part is tougher. Any suggestions? From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],"Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv"<mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension StrategiesListserv<mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones-visualization/retelling/summarizing... Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 06:59:34 -0700 (MST) I am convinced more and more that one of the most important things we can do is to share our reading lives with children, being sincere in sharing how strategy work helps us out when we are encounter difficulties with text. As adults, how can we sincerely model that using only childrne's literature? Also, I think we need to think long and hard about how we extend this language naturally into other parts of day--into all parts of our day. These thinking strategies can be applied accross the curriculum and until they do, they are just something we do for a teacher during 'reading time'. Lori _________________________________________________________________ Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. http://get.live.com/messenger/overview _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
