I once had a wise professor who said, "Anything that can be used can be abused.". In an earlier time, I saw cooperative learning becoming the goal, rather than a tool. Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
-----Original Message----- From: "Stewart, L" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:30:49 To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group'<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Do we really need to teach explicit strategies? I am so enjoying all of these posts. I wish we could sit and talk about this. I am worried that the "natural part" is gone. I am so tired of hearing kids say I am picturing or I have a connection and half of the time the connections are so superficial. I had to explicitly teach my kids to talk about the story or the information and not to hyper-focus on talking about the strategies. I shouldn't have to undo what has been taught. I should be able to move forward and deeper. If I am undoing previous teaching, I think there is an error in our delivery, not in our knowledge. Please don't misunderstand - I believe in strategy instruction but not to the extent that I am now seeing it being taught. Leslie "The whole 'connection' and discussion has to become 'natural' and part of the thinking of the kids without thinking, 'wow I am using the inference strategy now and two days ago I used the 'connection strategy'. That's not how we read. We are teaching and guiding deeper level thinking. Don't you think?" Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Dr. Seuss _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
