An earlier post really got me thinking about this. Do we REALLY need to teach explicit strategies? The quote someone posted earlier from a book-- something like-- we use these strategies when reading materials high above our reading levels like highly technical reading-- got to me. That these are more study skills... I realized I couldn't agree more. Do you think it would be enough to just get our kids to be voracious readers? (I teach 1st grade). Do you think it would be enough to teach just ONE strategy which would be Readers think while they read. You could MODEL the different ways readers do this-- by using their schema, making predictions, and connecting the text to themselves and other texts, but do we really need to go further than that? Could we ask students to do all these things by just having book club discussions where students, even 1st graders, get to talk about the books they're reading? My head is full of new questions.... _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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