I thinking the behaviors or strategies is important to having a means to discourse about them. We can't very well expect kids to know what we are talking about if we call them 'thing-a-ma-jigs". It seems to me a vocabulary for learning. If child know what a traingle is, can drawn that triangle, sort that triangle, measure that triangle and yet cannot not say 'triangle' and associate it with all those abilities, what happens when next year's teacher says, "Tell me what you know about triangles?" I know I am over simplifying this to make a point, but having these sort of intellectual conversations about the learning process is something we can expect of children and we need to gift ourselves with a common vocabulary for these discussions.
I haven't read the article, but relate this issue of naming to Peter Johnston's Choice Words where he talks about the importance of noticing and naming. It is gifting the child the language to describe the things he or she is doing and also shining a bit of light on what the child is doing well. Lori ----- Original message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Date: 2008, 14, Thursday Of February 05:48 Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Comprehension Strategy vs. Skill > although discussing strategy vs. skill as pedagogy is interesting.... the > question i have is.... if teachers use the terms loosely and don't seem to > recognize differences between strategies and skills in their delivery of > instruction... why then would it be more effective for students to have the > behaviors > named?....i would think that the behaviors themselves would be most > important... not the terms.Did the article expound on that? > > > > **************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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
