----- Original Message ----- From: "Maggie Dillier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 1. *Teaching strategies (making connections, visualizing, etc.) versus > text structures (setting, character, etc.) versus genre*. Do you teach > all strategies early in the year and then literary elements later, or do > you > mingle both? (Clarification: I can see the year being arranged like > this: "fiction, nonfiction, poetry, test prep..." or like this: "making > connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring...") It's non-stop. I'm teaching it all year and mix it all. I stress each as I introduce them, but then it's a constant "remember this?" > 2. *Integrating test preparation for the big reading test*. See > previous posts. Do I teach a whole unit on test-taking, with test > passages > and the whole deal, or do I teach the type of questions that will be > asked > (compare and contrast, author's purpose, cause and effect) in another > context (i.e., guided reading)? My principal has given test taking strategies to the content areas so all i have to do is teach them how to read better.... > 3. *Aligning reading with writing topics*. When I'm teaching > nonfiction in writing, should I do nonfiction in reading at the same > time? Sure, why not? > 4. *Guided reading*. WHAT texts do you teach? Do you reinforce > whatever you taught in a minilesson, or is it a different focus > entirely? I stress meaning. Then we discuss how the strategies helped us to gain meaning.... > 5. *Content-area reading*. Probably some of you don't teach all > subjects, but I do, and I wonder if I should teach reading the science > textbook in science or in reading. Is content-area reading a unit you > teach? > Should I do it as part of guided reading instead of whole-class? It's all reading...no matter what subject area. Show how to read a chapter or how to analyze text and layout. . _______________________________________________ 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.
