In a message dated 7/28/2007 12:10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it more effective for ESL students to learn to read first and focus less on comprehension, or should ESL students focus more on comprehension and less on accuracy? This is an interesting question...and since you did ask, what do you THINK (since I really don't know at all), I will share my opinion. As a teacher, if I had an ESL student, I would work on both simultaneously, but probably not with the same material. I would assess this child's needs, as I would any child, and try to work with them where they need me to. I think the comprehension instruction would come more with read alouds, where I could challenge them a little. I do say simultaneously because I think you will need both. I do believe fluency and/or accuracy is a bridge to comprehension, and if you are laboring over the words your cognitive energy would be spent there and you would have little to give to comprehension. However, the goal of reading is comprehension, to make meaning, so I would want to devote plenty of time to that as well. That is what I THINK *SMILE* Terry/Fl (anxious to hear this discussion) ************************************** 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.
