On May 16, 2008, at 6:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Part of me would love to just do a lot of fun reading activities like > I used > to do such as acting out stories, making up new endings, writing a > letter to > a favorite character but I know that there are more valuable things > that I > should be teaching them to do in order to be better readers.
I think these are all very valuable things to do, as they bring the reader into the text in ways that are personal and reflective. Renee G. "The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can asks his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask which he finds hard to answer." ~ Alice Wellington Rollins _______________________________________________ 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.
