Gina, what grade do you teach?  can you give some examples of texts you 
might use?
Can you share your other "raps"?  Susan
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From: "gina nunley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] monitoring


> Richard,  I agree that the precursor to strategy instruction is monitoring
> meaning.  We have a before, during, and after rap to guide us through
> reading a piece.  The During reading is simple
>
> Read and Think to Understand
> Does it click or does it clunk?
> Use your strategies to fix it up.
>
> Before I focus on strategies I do a lot of click or clunk.  We actualy
> celebrate identifying a clunk...an unkown word, a confusing sentence, a
> confusing event, character action, etc.    I have been amazed at how many
> kids need to be led to metacognitively knowing that something is clunking.
> You know sometimes just that realization is all that needs to happen for
> them to do something to improve their own comprehension.  Gina
>
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