[MOSAIC] dra ...a bit off the beaten path

[Kukonis at aol.com]

If you look on pages 158-161 in Kathy Collin's resource "Growing  Readers"she 
provides mini lessons that help strong readers retell proficiently  and the 
reasons why strong readers should learn about retelling.... which I  think is 
important and often overlooked as we narrow our lens on the strategy.  Of 
course, The  Power of Retelling has excellent ideas and useful  background info for 
the teacher, as well.
 
Given those ideas and consideration of Lori Jackson's post of getting kids  
to rate their own retelling by using a rubric... that is first constructed  
together, modeled, guided and then finally independently evaluated (by use of  
tape recorder) could be a great start.
Pam



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