This was my first year attempting to use the comprehension strategies with kindergarten, also. I loved using them with first and second graders (unlike Ginger, I was coming from below, so to me, those second grade responses were fabulous!!). One of the chalenges in kindergarten is the decoding, concepts of print, sharing reading, etc. takes up most of the first half of the year. I did a good job with some of the strategies (prediction, schema/connections, questioning), a so-so job with some of them (visualization, determining importance, inference) and never made it to synthesis. I was able to get the kids to use sticky notes to write questions, we were able to decide if the question was answered in the book, and whether it was an interesting question that we would use inference to answer. These kids will go on next year to a team of first grade teachers who did a book study on Debbie Miller with me two years ago, so I know my kids are going to continue to grow in using the strategies. I am more convinced than ever that this is the way to teach, even in the youngest grades, to get kids more concerned about the meaning of the text and not just the words they can decode, especially after reading some of Elaine Garan's book. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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