It's obviously not the teaching that has gone wrong, but the administration that has gone wrong.
Renee On May 6, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Sandra Stringham wrote: > Leslie writes: > > new critical concern. I teach third grade in a school that is > all about teaching reading strategies. We have been told not to > teach > novels - better to have quantity than quality - and we have been > told to > stick to teaching the strategies from grades K-4, often times > using the > same texts! We have even been told that it is not our job to make > children like reading. I am now noticing that my children can > recite the > strategies and even apply them and write to them but they are missing > the book. They aren't looking at the book as a whole anymore. It > has > been delivered to them piecemeal and they are reading it that > way. Many > of them are missing the entire point, theme, lesson, importance, > etc of > the story. I am trying frantically to correct this before the > year is > over. Are any of you experiencing anything similar to this? > > This is confusing...the reason for the reading strategies is so > that kids can understand what they read and enjoy what they read. > Something has gone wrong here. I never read a book piecemeal....I > read it in its entirety so we can enjoy it. I don't even have a > problem if you are using the same texts K-4, because as kids > grow..they should get more out of it..take it deeper, or even need > an easier text to learn from (and many more reasons!) But you > always look at the book as a whole. > > Either something has gone wrong with the message....OR...something > has gone wrong with the teaching OR both. > > Since I began focusing on each strategy and then build on each one, > my kids LOVE to read. I even got a note today saying thank you for > teaching their child to read because they can't keep her out of the > library! I hear from students years later how much they love to read. > > Sandi > 1st/2nd > Elgin IL > _______________________________________________ > 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. > "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John Lennon _______________________________________________ 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.
