I received this following announcement from the Michigan Dept of Ed. yesterday.
Interesting that they are dropping cross text reading/responding in favor of
the more literal questions to respond to in short answer format. I'm still not
sure how they think this will promote high level thinking
District
Box 87
Mission SD 5755
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From: STEWART, L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Date: 2008, 06, Tuesday Of May 20:48
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] critical concern response to Sandi
Sandi writes:
Either
Leslie, I think you bring up a valid concern. To just dictate the strategies
and expect students to automatically transfer them to their reading is not
what many of us believe as teachers. When children aren't taught that love
of reading a whole book is important - we've lost them. I know you've
Ann,
The powers that be are not interested in high level thinking. High
level thinking turns people into rebels. They are mostly interested in
high test scores, which can only be gained through correct responses to
literal questions with one right answer.
Renee
On May 7, 2008, at 3:18 AM,
Not everything that can be measured is important, and not everything important
can be measured.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:19:17 -0700 To:
mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] critical concern Ann,
The powers that be are not interested in high level
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] critical
concern Ann, The powers that be are not interested in high
level thinking. High level thinking turns people into rebels. They
are mostly interested in high test scores, which can only be gained
through correct responses to literal questions with one right
High level thinking turns people into rebels.
And testing/teaching to a test turns children into robots.
Kendra
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Leslie
Being in a 1-2 classroom, I do teach ALL the strategies and it's important to
me that they know they build on each other. We are working on Synthesizing now
and I'm using Jabberwocky (you can find it on the mosaic pages). We are using
all the strategies in order to create
] critical concern
High level thinking turns people into rebels.
And testing/teaching to a test turns children into robots.
Kendra
I have a new critical concern. I teach third grade in a school that is
all about teaching reading strategies. We have been told not to teach
novels - better to have quantity than quality - and we have been told to
stick to teaching the strategies from grades K-4, often times using the
same
. I hope this helps. Suzanne
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of STEWART, L
Sent: Wed 5/7/2008 3:42 AM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Subject: [MOSAIC] Critical concern: the results of a steady diet of
readingstrategies
I have a new
Leslie,
That sounds scary!! I guess too much of any one thing can be a deal breaker!
Leslie P
In a message dated 5/6/2008 4:43:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a new critical concern. I teach third grade in a school that is
all about teaching reading
Leslie writes:
new critical concern. I teach third grade in a school that is
all about teaching reading strategies. We have been told not to teach
novels - better to have quantity than quality - and we have been told to
stick to teaching the strategies from grades K-4, often times using
: 2008, 06, Tuesday Of May 19:39
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] critical concern
It's obviously not the teaching that has gone wrong, but the
administration that has gone wrong.
Renee
On May 6, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Sandra Stringham wrote:
Leslie writes:
new critical concern. I teach third grade
Sandi writes:
Either something has gone wrong with the messageOR...something has gone
wrong with the teaching OR both.
Since I began focusing on each strategy and then build on each one, my kids
LOVE to read. I even got a note today saying thank you for teaching their
child to read
Although literal responses are generalized as the easier responses...
because the kids need only to refer to the text to formulate an answer,
consider
The Power of Retelling. This text examines these literal questions and
shows the reader how the structure of the text is inherent to
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