The school I work at read Debbie Miller's book, and now we are required to teach a different comprehension strategy every month. However, we don't really have a system for assessing students on mastery of the strategies. I like this posted idea of students coming up with their own methods of identifying where they are using strategies. However, I work with second graders, so I'm wondering if there are specific ways that people have found to work well in assessing any or all of the strategies at this level.
I may be off base here but isn't the goal of the strategies comprehension? I don't think we need to assess the strategies, we need to assess the comprehension. In sports players work and practice many strategies that their coaches have taught them but the test comes in the game-if they apply the strategies they play well. We don't want to test the strategies we test the comprehension. Several have mentioned how kids can get hung up in coding connections-the point isn't to code correctly, the point is to make and use the connection to comprehend what they are reading. Teacher observations, reading conferences etc. will give us the information on whether the students are using the strategies. Laura C _______________________________________________ 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.
