Catherine...your questions are ones I have been pondering as well. Right now, I am thinking it goes back to teaching the nature of understanding along with the strategies. I think we show kids how to use their talk with a partner to get new ideas....we model how to take time in silence to think...we give the kids a LONG wait time and tell them why we do so. We don't come into a genre study with an understanding of what the author is trying to do...we infer it...together. Don't come into a lesson with answers. but model the questions and trust in the process and that the answers will come. Jennifer
How do others go about dwelling in the ideas in a text? How do you get students involved in the noticings? _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list [email protected] http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
