[MOSAIC] Comprehension questions for parents

[Kukonis at aol.com]

I remember once attending a workshop about parent partnerships and literacy  
instruction presented by Dorothy Watson back in the day.... she approached it  
this way. She asked the audience to read a highly technical and abstract  
summary with the intention of getting as much meaning out of as we could.  Rather 
than record our understandings, Dorothy recorded our  reading behaviors and 
then named them (basically MOT strategies) We spent  the next hour or so 
discussing the subtle differences of each strategy and how  they worked together to 
deepen meaning. Then we discussed our understandings  about the particular 
piece with these strategies as backdrop and "grew our  schema" (though not her 
terminology) together about the text. It was really  enlightening to go through 
the process. The lesson spoke volumes. In my opinion  using a constructivist 
framework for any student (and especially for  parents) directs insightful and 
purposeful understandings.
Pam