Gordon wrote: What techniques or strategies do you all recommend for raising the student's comprehension of daily reading and application to testing?
One of the first issues is for the reader to decide whether the selection is fact or fiction. If fact, then active thinking while reading loosely follows along the lines of a K-W-L chart. If fiction, then students will be thinking about setting, characters, problem, solution, conclusion. I've found that if this distinction is not directly taught, then many students try to apply the fiction style of thinking on non-fiction passages, with very poor results. Kare _______________________________________________ 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.
