[MOSAIC] Fwd: an

[Kukonis at aol.com]

Sandra,
In response to you pressing a child for his connection.... I have just come  
away from a writing workshop with Carl Anderson and one of his points was not 
to  have a predetermined mindset of  "conferencing lessons" ( like  teachers 
often do when creating  minilessons for their units of  study)  but rather to 
ask the student what he is working on....What  students may mean to do is not 
necessarily reflected in their writing  even though they may understand the 
skill that would make them better writers. I  also teach first grade and kids' 
inexperience for executing new  and novel strategies does not necessarily mean 
that they don't  understand these strategies.
 
Your comments once again reminded me of that strong reader/writer  connection 
and that it is not necessarily the content of what you are teaching  but more 
importantly the structured framework you set up to help you teach a  concept.