[MOSAIC] Fluency assessment question

[Joy]

I'm not saying that it is wrong, but was thinking back to this summer when I was reading Allington, and one of the reasons for not doing round robin was that kids think they have to be "right" all the time. Maybe I over generalized what he said.

Creecher12 at aol.com wrote:  
In a message dated 8/27/2007 5:43:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jwidmann at rocketmail.com writes:

Or maybe the student has been overcorrected to the point that guessing seems 
better than being caught "wrong."


Isn't this a first grader? When did "guessing" become a become a bad 
strategy? Do you know when kids are guessing if they say the word correctly? I 
would say to make sure he has lots of strategies in his "toolbox" so that he 
can make his guesses based on the best evidence.

Nancy Creech



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