Renee: I admire your focus on comprehension. However, if you have a student who is having difficulty comprehending, how do you determine the source of the difficulty? Students can have difficulty comprehending for a number of reasons -- lack of decoding skills, poor comprehension strategies, restricted meaning vocabulary, poor fluency, etc. Every child in our reading clinic at Kent State manifests difficulty in comprehension. However, the sources of the difficulty varies greatly among the children. Without knowing the source of the difficulty, instruction to meet the source of the difficulty is a challenge at best. Timothy Rasinski 404 White Hall Kent State University Kent, OH 44242 330-672-0649 Cell -- 330-962-6251 FAX 330-672-2025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] informational website: www.timrasinski.com professional development DVD: http://www.roadtocomprehension.com/ <https://exchange.kent.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.roadtocomprehension.com/>
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Renee Sent: Wed 7/11/2007 11:21 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Repeated Readings for Fluency - Question for Tim > The relationship between oral and silent reading is very strong. > That is why we use oral reading as > a way to assess overall reading -- including silent reading. I have never used oral reading skills to assess silent reading. In fact, I don't "assess" silent reading in the first place. What I assess is comprehension. If I am required to give students a "score" or "grade" for fluency or other reading skills/tools, I do it, but not by choice. To me, reading is making meaning. Making meaning is exemplified by how well a student is able to discuss or write about what he or she has read. But that's just me. Renee "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." ~Helen Keller _______________________________________________ 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.
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