[MOSAIC] when comprehension strategies become the reasonforreading. . .

[David Hoh]

The message from <Kukonis at aol.com> makes a great point. She wrote: "the 
strategies are comprehension strategies... not  just reading comprehension 
strategies ..... [to be used] not just [to understand] a particular author's 
meaning  but ... finding meaning in all that you do."

I agree with all you said about applying strategies to all sorts of texts 
and subject material, but I also see them applied in real life. I'm in the 
process of buying a new house, and I find myself visualizing rooms and 
furniture and future landscaping, making connections with other houses, 
predicting how it will be like to live in this new environment, and so on. 
Not to mention that the contracts are themselves very difficult texts to 
comprehend.

That said, I'm didn't need to consciously leran the strategies or to name 
them before getting good at them. As some here have said, that comes through 
many and varied experiences with texts and life. But in the metacognitive 
sense, it's valuable to understand what I do and to give it names so I can 
talk about it with others -- like my sixth graders.

Dave Hoh / 6th / NJ