This is my first year in kindergarten after six years in the upper elementary grades so I feel experienced enough to jump in on this topic. When teaching 4th grade I always felt like the kids were coming to us weak in comprehension skills--great word callers but couldn't tell me what they'd read about; much less have a conversation in a book club. Now that I'm in kindergarten the focus is on letter and sound recognition (and sight word recog.) that sometimes I think we underestimate the thinking skills that our little guys and gals can engage in while listening. So, I am working very hard to incorporate higher level thinking strategies during my reading instruction and read alouds. Now if only I could get my teammates to jump on my bandwagon:-)
Nicole in NC _______________________________________________ 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.
