[MOSAIC] strategies for little ones-visualization/retelling/summarizing...

[Sarah Griffith Cartmill]

Lori,
Very well put! I noticed, as Lindsey mentioned, that there are ways that 
take modeling a step further and really allow the student to understand and 
use the strategy at hand.

I am also interested in going deeper and the how's AND why's of each 
strategy can vary depending on our connections with the text. I am 
wondering, as you mentioned the connection you have with a text really has 
to be shared with students.

I think with children's literature it's also important to think of ways to 
relate the text with real-life or even worldly situations. I think it's 
wonderful that we can take messages from a children's book and make it hold 
up with life's lessons.

Sharing these types of things with middle/high school students is of 
interest to me. I feel like sometimes it's easier on certain levels to get 
them to relate, but the sharing part is tougher. Any suggestions?


From: <ljackson at gwtc.net>
Reply-To: ljackson at gwtc.net,"Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies 
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To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension 
StrategiesListserv<mosaic at literacyworkshop.org>
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little 
ones-visualization/retelling/summarizing...
Date: Thu,  8 Feb 2007 06:59:34 -0700 (MST)

I am convinced more and more that one of the most important things we can do 
is to share our reading lives with children,
being sincere in sharing how strategy work helps us out when we are 
encounter difficulties with text. As adults, how can we
sincerely model that using only childrne's literature?  Also, I think we 
need to think long and hard about how we extend this
language naturally into other parts of day--into all parts of our day.  
These thinking strategies can be applied accross the
curriculum and until they do, they are just something we do for a teacher 
during 'reading time'.

Lori

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