[MOSAIC] Not enough time!

[Ruth Devoll]

Are you familiar with "the Comprehension Toolkit"  by Harvey & Goudvis?
We use it in our district as one way of teaching strategies.
Good luck,
Ruth DeVoll 
 

Ruth DeVoll
Title 1
Lawrence Elementary

>>> Stephanie Ann Vander Voort <savander at syr.edu> 02/19/07 12:31 pm >>>

I am a grad student at Syracuse University working on my masters in  
Literacy Education(B- 6). I have been following this litserv for  
several weeks and have found that the topics being discussed fit in  
very closely with the course work I have been doing through this  
program. The explicit teaching of strategies seems like the best way  
to improve comprehension by making students? aware of their own  
thinking.  I would really like to incorporate strategies instruction  
into my own teaching. I have even joined a ?Reading with Meaning? book 

study at my school to give me more ideas on the best ways to do this.  

Even with all the reading I have done and discussions I have had on  
strategies instruction, I am still having trouble incorporating these 

great ideas into my instruction. The main reason for this is time. I  
work with ?at risk? kindergarten- third grade students. I go into 9  
different classrooms a day and work with small groups of 2- 7 students 

in each room. I am only with each group for 25 minutes a day.  
Sometimes groups I don?t even see everyday because they alternate days 

with other groups in their class. With the limited time I have with  
these students, we can barely get one book read. Since these are  
struggling readers we do a lot of work with decoding as well. I don?t 

want comprehension to suffer so I feel it is very important to start  
using these strategies with my students, but my efforts haven?t been  
very successful so far. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fit 

explicit strategies instruction into a very limited block of time?  
Thanks! ~Stephanie~


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