[MOSAIC] critical concern

[Renee]

It's obviously not the teaching that has gone wrong, but the  
administration that has gone wrong.

Renee

On May 6, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Sandra Stringham wrote:

> Leslie writes:
>
> 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?
>
> This is confusing...the reason for the reading strategies is so  
> that kids can understand what they read and enjoy what they read.   
> Something has gone wrong here.  I never read a book piecemeal....I  
> read it in its entirety so we can enjoy it.  I don't even have a  
> problem if you are using the same texts K-4, because as kids  
> grow..they should get more out of it..take it deeper, or even need  
> an easier text to learn from (and many more reasons!)  But you  
> always look at the book as a whole.
>
> Either something has gone wrong with the message....OR...something  
> has gone wrong with the teaching OR both.
>
> Since I began focusing on each strategy and then build on each one,  
> my kids LOVE to read.  I even got a note today saying thank you for  
> teaching their child to read because they can't keep her out of the  
> library!  I hear from students years later how much they love to read.
>
> Sandi
> 1st/2nd
> Elgin IL
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