I always have trouble explaining the difference between a skill and a strategy
to my students. Anyone have any good ideas/definitions?
Thanks,
Kendra
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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
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>I always have trouble explaining the difference between a skill and a strategy
>to my students. Anyone have any good
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>> I always have trouble explaining the difference between a skill
>> and a strate
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
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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
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