Bonita Great metaphor! I can't wait to use this with my kids! Jennifer In a message dated 9/23/2007 3:57:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This past week I used a drawn out metaphor to show students what I meant. I said reading is like eating an apple. You can just lick the skin (they all laughed and I asked why that was funny). We agreed that licking is NOT eating an apple anymore than looking at words--even reading them and letting them wash over you is NOT reading, not really. So then we talk about chewing and how that is when you get the apple-taste and we compared that to the inner talk and pictures that allow you to begin to enjoy text. Then--we swallow and our stomach starts to break the apple down. It feels good in our stomach if we are hungry, just like reading and figuring out parts we do not understand feels good and keeps us going. Finally the apple moves into the intestines where it is digested and nutrition enters our bloodstream and while, maybe, we are less aware of the goodness that is happening--it is important. I compare the final digestive step to the part where, when reading, we reach deeper, trying to unravel the learning or messages that might lie beneath the surface of the text , that might drive us to read more text of a similar nature or to have an inner debate. That is reading with analysis. The strategies are simply tools help us to go beyond the apple-lick to real taste and (if we work at it and want it)--to the deeper nutritional value. ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com _______________________________________________ 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.
