[MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy

I always have trouble explaining the difference between a skill and a strategy to my students. Anyone have any good ideas/definitions? Thanks, Kendra ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscri

[MOSAIC] skill or strategy

Kendra, In Reading Recovery Training, Marie Clay said that a strategy is something that you can't observe...we can only infer they are using that strategy, such as monitoring, visualizing, etc. Those are all "in the head". Skills, or behaviors, as Clay would say, are observable. We can see

Re: [MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy

11:01 AM >To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" > >Subject: [MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy > >I always have trouble explaining the difference between a skill and a strategy >to my students. Anyone have any good

Re: [MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy

AM >> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" >> >> Subject: [MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy >> >> I always have trouble explaining the difference between a skill >> and a strate

Re: [MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy

Kendra, I usually say that a skill is something we know like changing y to i and adding es. And a strategy is something we do like visualizing or rereading. Not sure if that's right - but it is how I present them. Roveen --- --- ___ Mosaic mailing

Re: [MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy

Here's a question, and I realize I may be opening a whole huge can of worms here... Does it matter if it is a skill or a strategy? I was very concerned about that a while back and kept questioning myself, and then the more I thought about it I wondered why it was important. The kids don't ne

Re: [MOSAIC] Skill or Strategy

Kendra There hasn't been consensus in the profession but there was an article in last months Reading Teacher which described strategies as those things we CHOOSE to use and use deliberately. Skills are what is automatic. There was a thread on this recently so you could go back and look th