Let me see if I can revive the talk a little...
Pick one of these quotes from chapter seven and react to it. Tell the list
what you are thinking about...what you have seen with your students or in your
own experiences that would support or contradict Ellin's statements.
pg. 168 " I wish I'd recorded the number of times a child arrived at an
insight or observation that represented a more far-reaching level of
comprehension than I had imagined possible. This happened so many times I
finally
realized it wasn't solely the use of comprehension strategies that elevated
their
understanding--it was defining and describing what the strategies allowed the
students to understand."
OR
pg. 172 " I wonder---are we explicit with children about how the books we
read change us,causing us to act, to read more, to write, to change our
previously held beliefs? Do we ask--"What happened at the end of chapter five
or
questions like these: "In what ways were you changed by this book? How will you
approach people differently because you read this book? ....How have you
revised what you thought you believed or understood?"
OR
pg 183 Ellin explains Anaphora: " Any word or phrase that refers to another
word or phrase or concept elsewhere in the text (sometimes as a simple pronoun
or antecedent but often more subtle and therefore more difficult to follow."
She recommends putting text with anaphora on the overhead and showing kids
what it is and what happens to comprehension if it is missed. What were you
thinking about as you read/learned about anaphora? How important is it to
bring to student's attention?
Jennifer
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