I know that your statement is so true. Most of my students first
learn to say I have a connection. Which I really appreciate, because
this is an easy way to help them see how having a connection helps
them to understand what they read. Last year I had a child who had
visited a reservation, his sharing of his connections helped us all to
understand the story we were reading about a reservation. A real aha
moment for my class.
PatK.
On Jun 13, 2009, at 7:11 AM, [email protected] wrote:
That being said, if the conversation that the children are having is
centering on their strategies like, “I made a connection,” or “I
could visualize this part,” we must push them to explain why that
helped them to understand the story or text. Strategies serve the
reader as a means to understand or deepen understanding of what we
read. So “talking the talk” of strategies has to be linked to
“walking the walk” of understanding what is being read.
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