[MOSAIC] (mosaic) fitting it all in

[BilsCntsa at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/16/2006 4:18:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
becklynn at sbcglobal.net writes:

How do  the rest of you fit in all the skills "stuff" while still  
teaching  the thinking and reasoning strategies?


We had a reading consultant come in this year and I almost stood up and  
applauded when she told our group that we must FIRST teach our students the  
strategies of comprehension BEFORE we can expect them to do the skills. So many  
people on my staff use them synomously(sp?), saying the skill instruction is  
their comprehension instruction. 
What I try my best to do is first have them independently using one of more  
of the strategies and then show them how those strategies help us to find the  
main idea, or to think about the author's purpose and why they chose their  
words, or to identify the causes and effects; it just becomes a part of the 
deep  discussion as we become involved in and around text. 
Terry/3/Fl