I have to respectfully take exception to this. It rankles me from head to toe, and I know it was not meant to do so, so please do not take that personally. However, there is something you can do, there are lots of things you can do... Taking the example of a child who has never been to a farm...
Find a short educational video about life on a farm. Read to them abut farm life. Find photographs and do a gallery walk--what do you notice? Invite someone to come talk to the kiddos about farming. Create a bit of a farm in the classroom (we created a barn out of appliance boxes and the hayloft opening became the theatre for puppet play. Use music about farms as shared reading. Find a class expert and encourage some talk. As an adult, there are lots of things I don't have strong schema for BUT part of teaching anyone about schema is letting them know that happens--and that it happens with proficient readers as well. Then we hand them some tools so that they can begin to accommodate, expand, develop their schema. Lori On 7/26/07 10:32 PM, "Debbie Goodis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the unfortunate things about some populations of children is that > they DO NOT have background knowledge for many things and if > they do not, there is nothing you can do about it. -- Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach & Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 57555 http:www.tcsdk12.org ph. 605.856.2211 Literacies for All Summer Institute July 17-20. 2008 Tucson, Arizona _______________________________________________ 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.
