I love, love, love the GIST Strategy as presented by Janet Allen. Teaching kids to summarize by boiling a paragraph down to 15 words or less, while having these important discussions about determining importance, really seems to work. I have been successful working with first graders (in a shared process) and have seen the same process really benefit secondary readers.
Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist Broken Bow, NE EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:25:27 -0500 > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Back to comprehension...Main Idea > > What about main idea in non fiction. > > We did just this in our reading clinic with struggling readers for a 6 week > period. We focused on determining importance - more directly what was > relevant information versus what was interesting. It is a very difficult > concept for kids to figure out, but when deciding on whether it was important > (having to do with the title/subheading etc) or if it was just interesting > seemed to help them the most. This allowed for great discussions about the > information. We really stuck with it and the kids seemed to get the big > picture. > > Kelly AB > _______________________________________________ > 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.
