Lori, Would you please give more specific details about minutia? Joy/NC/4 How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
----- Original Message ---- From: Ljackson <[email protected]> To: "[email protected], Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:34:30 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Synthesizing with younger ages Anderson and Wilhelm's research with adolescent male readers showed that kids WANT to feel challenged--they want to know that teachers EXPECT them to be able to think. What they don't want is to be overwhelmed with minutia. Lori Jackson > And it's a dangerous habit of mind or disposition to think that all learning > is easy and you should never have to work To Understand. What a disservice > to our young minds. - > From: Joy <[email protected]> > > Sally, > >.. . . I have this discussion with parents who are hyper-focused on their kids >achievement, pushing them to perfection in every task they attempt. They think >they are having high expectations, when in fact they aren't allowing them to >struggle and come to the understanding naturally. > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
