I am reminded of response journals and how hard it is to take kids from
summarizing (or worse yet, endlessly listing details) in their journals to
actually responding to what they're reading. Is that natural...or, if not,
what have we done in education that's caused them to infer that what we want is
a listing of what was in a book rather than what connections the book caused to
them and their life?
So I guess my big question is: What is it we hope for kids to remember from
text? Like me, my kids have trouble remembering titles--but I've never deemed
that particularly important. Do we want them to remember the plot? The feel of
the book? What it left them thinking? What do you think we want to help them
remember?Judy
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