[MOSAIC] Comprehension strategies and Harcourt

[Dan & Nicole Lavinder]

This is my first year in kindergarten after six years in the upper
elementary grades so I feel experienced enough to jump in on this topic.
When teaching 4th grade I always felt like the kids were coming to us weak
in comprehension skills--great word callers but couldn't tell me what they'd
read about; much less have a conversation in a book club.  Now that I'm in
kindergarten the focus is on letter and sound recognition (and sight word
recog.) that sometimes I think we underestimate the thinking skills that our
little guys and gals can engage in while listening.  So, I am working very
hard to incorporate higher level thinking strategies during my reading
instruction and read alouds.  Now if only I could get my teammates to jump
on my bandwagon:-)

Nicole in NC