In a message dated 2/13/2008 10:35:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone taken into consideration some of Piaget's theories, which would support children from second grade on down being "less likely" to consider an assortment of ideas at the same time? Trying to catch up on some emails here, and this one really rang of truth. I think little kids have a hard time tying reading all up as a pretty package. Mike Muise has compared reading to driving a car. You can't just learn how to brake, and how to steer, and how to merge etc. Everything has to come together in order to drive the car. For the past few days in my kindergarten we have been studying the text of the song Aiken Drum. We sing and march and talk about the vocabulary in the song (many of them don't know what a ladle, a radish or a celery stalk are ), and then I use the song as a lesson on visualization. They draw the picture in their mind about what Aiken Drum looks like and then put it on paper. About 5 kids in each of my classes didn't get it at all. It made me wonder if there is a disconnect for them between the letters and sounds we do in interactive writing, the read/think alouds we do together, the poetry fluency reading, and the many stupid little guided reading books that have so little comprehension in them! They aren't tying together the necessary components to understand the literacy of it all. I'm still thinking about the best ways to help them do that and if it is possible at their development level. Maybe that is why we don't let kids drive until their mid teens! Nancy **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) _______________________________________________ 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.
