Brilliant! On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Christine Koch <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hi Martha > I've had a different sort of experience that might help. After years of > trying to model and scaffold "answers" that I'm looking for, I've started > saying "What were you thinking about as you read this?" and letting the kids > take the lead. They aren't good at it at first -- they tend to wait > passively for questions, but as they get more comfortable, they really > respond. > Then I try to label what they're saying ---- "you really were visualizing > the action there! Did that look like a movie in your head? What were you > visualizing as Cam crept up the stairs? What did the house look like in > YOUR movie?" > When I need characters or retelling, I say, in the middle of our discussion > "Wait -- who are you talking about? What was happening then?" The > retelling comes more easily, I'm finding. > > > Christine Koch > Literacy Specialist > Wentworth School > Scarborough ME 04074 > 207-730-4661 > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] on > behalf of [email protected] > Sent: Tue 3/23/2010 8:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Retelling > > > > > Hi colleagues. I need some help. > I am working with two little munchkins in 2nd grade. They can both read > like the wind, but both demonstrated lots of trouble retelling on the DRA2. > > We backed up and spent time with lots of pretelling activites, cohesive > ties. We read easy books with clear story elements. We sequenced pictures > from the story that were photocopied. We did activities to visualize the > setting, etc. So far, so good. > > Then we began working with Vicki Benson's retelling graphic organizer, and > for one of the students, it was an Aha moment and his retellings have grown. > He's on his way. So I am celebrating his successes. > > However, the other student is dead stuck in the water. When asked direct > questions - who were the important characters, what was the setting, etc., > she does relatively well consistently. She does an adequate job retelling > with pictures with LOTS of wait time in between her thoughts, but I can't > seem to move her beyond that. > > Any suggestions/strategies you can suggest for me to try would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks. > Martha > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > -- "There is nothing so unequal as equal treatment of unequals." Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes _______________________________________________ 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.
