In a message dated 3/28/2008 9:57:51 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > In chapter 2, Ellin begins to show us her What's Essential Model. > The all encompassing question is, "How can teachers focus on the most > essential elements of literacy learning in a context of growing > curriculum and assessment demands?" p. 31 >
> What can you start to let go of in order to focus on what's essential? > What will we focus on in the midst of outside pressures? LOOK FOR THE PATTERNS WITHIN THE STANDARDS! It's all about reading process, knowing the reading process, and understanding where anthologies, focus skills and strategies and state standards fit within the reading process. If you know reading process...you can fit all things that need to be taught into it. We took our Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum (which really isn't voluntary...an argument for another day) and took all the comprehension strands and synthesized it down to the following seven reading elements (these are not inclusive of general reading processes such as phonemic awareness, rhyming, segmenting, etc...): Predicting Connecting Inferring Paraphrasing Main Idea Summarizing Drawing Conclusions about the text. Teach people how to focus on these seven and they will quickly see that all standards (at least from the MD ones) fit into one of these. Our goal...to find the author's message and to see how we as learners are changed from the author's message. ~Peter Carpenter Maryland > > > > > > > **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL > Home. > (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001) > _______________________________________________ > Understand mailing list > [email protected] > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
