Wow! Have you inspired a flood of thinking in my brain!! Connections. Language. Instructional programs. Sense. Nonsense. Hearing-impaired kids. Experiences. Early Reading First. Oral language acquisition. ELL. Altwerger's newest book. Silent classrooms. Clickers. DIBELS. Piaget. Kamii. Articulation. Play. Selma Wasserman and Serious Players. Brain research. Networks. Linear versus multi-dimensional, connections. Webs. Weavings. Warp and Woof. Strength. I don't think you want to get me started.
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:21:08 -0400> To: > [email protected]> Subject: Re: [Understand] Metacognitive look > at chapter 2 Dna's comments> > I too am reading this thread with great > interest. When Dana mentioned her > lack of connections to her school law > class - I immediately thought of many of > my special needs sixth graders who > appear not to care about learning in > general. So do they not care because > they have had so many experiences at not > understanding? Does their lack of > understanding come from lack of connections to > that which was being taught? > If we were to continue to unravel this ball of > yarn, would we find the > inner core back somewhere in preschool or kindergarten > where these same > children were asked to derive meaning from printed text long > before they > had adequately developed language to engage successfully in > phonological > processing? I think many of my students would fail into that > category. > > > Many of my students are much better at math than reading and writing. They > > can compute with the best of them. They can locate patterns and manipulate > > numbers but they are unable to articulate the process by which they derived > > their answer. They have difficulty with vocabulary, particularly in problem > > solving situations. So I am wondering, how do I lead them into what it really > > means to understand - to in their words "get it" It appears they have had > only > rare "aha" moments.> > Keep the thoughts coming.> > June> 6th Grade > Special Needs Resource KY> > > > > > **************Planning your summer road > trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. > > (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016)> > _______________________________________________> Understand mailing list> > [email protected]> > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_messenger_video_042008 _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
