And I guess I have become what they call a "dinosaur" teacher. The kind that believes what we did ten years ago was better than what we are being asked to do today.
Only it's true. :) Renee On May 22, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Renee wrote: > I agree with Lori's statement below. And I would go further to say that > fluency should not be something one practices, but rather something one > becomes, and that becoming happens with more reading. Real reading. Not > reading while being timed for one minute. Not reading excerpts of > stories that have no beginning and no end. Not reading test questions. > But real reading of something that is interesting to the reader. > > I've been teaching a pretty long time. It seems curious to me that in > the early 90s, nobody "practiced fluency" and nobody tested it either, > yet we managed to have children learn to read, talk about what they had > read, write book reports and essays about books they had read, etc. > etc. > > Do some children need more intervention? Well, yes. That's always the > case. But I would argue that more reading for those children would > increase their fluency as well. > > I am beginning to feel that the "old school" has become the > "revolutionary school" of thought. > My two cents. > Renee > > > On May 22, 2007, at 5:38 AM, ljackson wrote: > >> I think if children do lots and lots of reading in meaningful and >> inspiring >> situations, that for most children, fluency will not be a serious >> issue. >> You become fluent in a language by speaking it. >> >> Lori >> >> >> On 5/22/07 5:18 AM, "Nancy Hagerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I don't think that we can aford to "skip" the fluency practice. > >>> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21/07 10:49 PM >>> >>>> Skip the fluency and work on inference and questioning techniques... > > > " What was once educationally significant, but difficult to measure, > has been replaced by what is insignificant and easy to measure. So now > we test how well we have taught what we do not value." > — Art Costa, emeritus professor, California State University > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ 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.
