What about the book "To Understand" by Ellin Keene. I have jus started reading it. The theme of it is how to we teach kids to make sense of what they are reading and is teaching just the strategies enough to help them understand.
--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Heather Green <[email protected]> wrote: From: Heather Green <[email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Just Finished Readacide and The Reading Zone What do you think the implications are... To: [email protected] Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 6:18 PM .... for lower elementary grades? I wish there were a book written with a similar theme, but geared toward 1-2. There are plenty of teachers at our school, include me last year, who taught "comprehension strategies". I am contemplating now-- is it enough to just let kids read? To talk about books with them? To have them recommend books with each other? Is it enough in the younger grades to just get them to love reading? Do we teach the strategies just because we feel it gives us something to teach during reading workshop? In her book, Atwell mentions doing mini-lessons. I wonder what these are. SO MANY QUESTIONS....! _______________________________________________ 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.
