Thanks Elisa! It was interesting.
Sue
-----Original Message-----
From: Waingort Jimenez, Elisa <elwaingor...@cbe.ab.ca>
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
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Sent: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 3:36 pm
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Back to comprehension...Main Idea
What about main idea in non fiction. I can see purpose or a guiding
question
helping here as well. I've been talking to my students about getting
the gist
of a short piece, such as a paragraph. I recently viewed a video about
a
teacher demonstrating this strategy with her students that I found
interesting
even though it was geared for grade 4. Here's the url if anyone's
interested
http://searchlight.utexas.org/content/4TRA/M7_Comprehension/activities/video2/activity_view
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
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Sue
Main idea...always a struggle for my kids as are any kinds of big
picture
questions. One thing I have found helpful is to help kids consider your
purpose for reading a particular text. What is most important in the
text is
then what suits your purpose as a reader. I think that the idea that
there is
a single main idea in a text is a fiction...though tests often feed
this
misunderstanding. That's where teaching test taking as a particular
reading
genre has benefits...
Jennifer
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