[MOSAIC] Comprehension Strategy vs. Skill

[Debbie Goodis]

Now I was taught that strategies were what good readers used to comprehend and that the skills were what the author used to organize his text. Like using compare/contrast or cause and effect to get the message across and readers need to be able to recognize that what the author was using.
Debbie

Diana Triplett <tripled3 at hotmail.com> wrote: > What the authors propose is to say that strategies are "deliberate, > goal-directed attempts to control and modify the reader's efforts to decode text, to > understand words and construct meanings of text. Reading skills are automatic > actions that result in decoding and comprehension with speed, efficiency and > fluency and usually occur without awareness of the components or control > involved. 
 
Hi Jennifer,
 
Do the authors give any examples that would help us to understand this difference?  I am currently teaching an on-line graduate level reading course.  I find that my participants use the terms strategy and skill interchangeably.  They also refer to things like graphic organizers as strategies.  
 
Diana
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