The message from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> makes a great point. She wrote: "the strategies are comprehension strategies... not just reading comprehension strategies ..... [to be used] not just [to understand] a particular author's meaning but ... finding meaning in all that you do."
I agree with all you said about applying strategies to all sorts of texts and subject material, but I also see them applied in real life. I'm in the process of buying a new house, and I find myself visualizing rooms and furniture and future landscaping, making connections with other houses, predicting how it will be like to live in this new environment, and so on. Not to mention that the contracts are themselves very difficult texts to comprehend. That said, I'm didn't need to consciously leran the strategies or to name them before getting good at them. As some here have said, that comes through many and varied experiences with texts and life. But in the metacognitive sense, it's valuable to understand what I do and to give it names so I can talk about it with others -- like my sixth graders. Dave Hoh / 6th / NJ _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
