Diana Here is a quote from the authors-- "Children in elementary school, especially when instruction focuses on constructing meaning, learn to find main ideas, to skim and to reread first as deliberate actions and, with practice, , later accomplish the same actions with less effort and awareness. In this view of learning, reading strategies often become fluent reading skills. Skills and strategies may serve the same goals and may result in the same behavior. For example, a student may decode words, read a text fluently or find a main idea by using skills OR strategies or both. " I teach a graduate reading course as well...until this moment, I had always thought of graphic organizers as a strategy for the teacher, not as a strategy for a student (unless the graphic organizer is created by the student...). Graphic organizers provide a visual representation of a text structure, or a thinking process but are not the actual thinking process or text structure...if that makes sense. Under this new idea of strategies being a deliberately chosen vehicle to decode or comprehend, perhaps I need to revise my definition... Jennifer -In a message dated 2/14/2008 8:26:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Jennifer, Do the authors give any examples that would help us to understand this difference? I am currently teaching an on-line graduate level reading course. I find that my participants use the terms strategy and skill interchangeably. They also refer to things like graphic organizers as strategies. Diana **************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.
