In a message dated 7/25/2007 10:26:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought that was a really interesting activity. I was thinking that perhaps the other thing this activity revealed to me is how stuck in schema I can be, trying to make it fit instead of looking for another schema. I imagine that happens quite a bit to students during reading. I'm wondering if we could use a cloze like this when we are teaching our students to be prepared to either have their BK confirmed and strengthened by the text, or to have their thinking changed by the text, either of which is a great thing to happen. People stuck in their own schema make for some funny and embarrassing situations at times when they discover how their thinking based on their schema was way off on a certain topic. Teaching students to be flexible in their thinking is key, I think. However, my schema on that could be way off! :) Do any of the rest of you have other cloze activity paragraphs that you could share that would work for classrooms? Sherry ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour _______________________________________________ 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.
