What I kinda got out of this article is that strategies become skills with practice. For example, one of those kids who "barks at print" is taught to stop herself periodically to ask herself if what she read makes sense. It feels awkward at first and the child must deliberately be reminded and then remind herself to do this. Then...this is self monitoring as a strategy. As the child evolves and improves as a reader...the self monitoring becomes a 'way of life'---automatic and a 'skill.' What fascinates me is the idea that while I might have 'visualizing' as a skill---usually I get a mind movie naturally when I read---there may be times when I am struggling with a text and have to consciously employ visualizing and then it goes back to being a strategy. I used to think of things like identifying story elements or naming text features as skills and MOT stuff as strategies. By this new definition... they all could be skills OR strategies depending on the person and whether or not they are consciously employed! Interesting stuff! Jennifer In a message dated 2/13/2008 8:58:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I didn't mean to make light of the thoughtful article definitions, which I actually have read only a part of cuz it just came today, but I am thinking of skills as being "knee jerk," such as when the rubber mallet strikes your knee at your physical exam. It reminds me of a saying by an esteemed educator (whose name annoyingly has left me at the moment) who was visiting classrooms in the order of Distar/Reading Mastery who proclaimed, "I've never seen such barkers in my life!" Surely she was hearing the results of skill instruction, yes?> **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. Go to AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565) _______________________________________________ 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.
