[MOSAIC] Critical concern: the results of a steady diet of reading strate...

[Lespop4 at aol.com]

Leslie,
 
That sounds scary!!  I guess too much of any one thing can be a deal  breaker!
 
Leslie P
 
 
In a message dated 5/6/2008 4:43:33 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
LSTEWART at branford.k12.ct.us writes:

I have a  new critical concern.  I teach third grade in a school that is
all  about teaching reading strategies.  We have been told not to  teach
novels - better to have quantity than quality - and we have been told  to
stick to teaching the strategies from grades K-4, often times using  the
same texts!  We have even been told that it is not our job to  make
children like reading. I am now noticing that my children can recite  the
strategies and even apply them and write to them but they are  missing
the book.  They aren't looking at the book as a whole  anymore.  It has
been delivered to them piecemeal and they are reading  it that way.  Many
of them  are missing the entire point, theme,  lesson, importance, etc of
the story.  I am trying frantically to  correct this before the year is
over.  Are any of you experiencing  anything similar to  this?

Leslie

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