Donna, I think this makes perfect sense, and the analogy is a very good one. Reading the posts in this thread, I was becoming very confused, since the difference between a skill and a strategy seems pretty clear to me. I was thinking along the lines of something like.... strategies are how you get something done, and skills are what you use in your strategy..... but I like your analogy better. :-)
Renee On Feb 15, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Kevin Kleinert wrote: > As a former physical education teacher, when it comes to skills and > strategies, I can't help but use a sports analogy. In the game of > basketball a player must possess certain isolated skills such as > dribbling, > passing, shooting, and a solid defensive stance. These skills are > fundamental and constantly refined. They in turn need to use these > isolated > skills to learn. implement and pull them all together to apply game > winning > strategies of complicated offensive plays and defensive match ups. > > In reading, their are many skills one needs such as phonics, decoding, > encoding, using context clues, identifying narrative elements, knowing > when > meaning breaks down, rereading, reading with fluency, using picture > clues, > etc. and in turn these skills are all needed to implement the > strategies of > inferencing, synthesizing, creating mental images, asking thick and > thin > questions, making connections etc. > > I don't feel my students need as much clarification on whether it is a > skill > or strategy, as much as I as their teacher, need to monitor and assess > my > students' skills and what strategies they are ready to learn and/or can > apply. > > Am I making sense? > > Donna Kleinert > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > "I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world." ~ Viggo Mortensen _______________________________________________ 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.
