[MOT2Chat] Chapter 3: Girl

[Creecher12 at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/26/2007 6:21:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
ljackson at gwtc.net writes:

When I  read the book first time round, it felt slightly beyond my grasp.   I
was sensing changes in my own reading but having a very difficult  time
seeing how this sort of experience and understanding would translate  to my
classroom practice with the wee people. 


Lori, 
I doubt you remember, but when I first read Mosaic of Thought I HATED it.  
All the thinking about my thinking as I read, was totally destroying my  
enjoyment of reading. It was really kind of making me angry. Because of all the  
raves, I signed on to the Mosaic list to try to figure out what all the hype was  
about and that did help.  Then our state adapted a "strategies curriculum"  
and we were mandated to teach the comprehension strategies. It was then  that I 
realized that some students need more instruction comprehending  then others, 
and that there are different ways to comprehend. Boys often have  different 
understandings than girls for instance. And I had read a comment from  Julius 
Lester on another listserv about people reading for deeper meaning in his  books 
and how when he had written those passages, that what he said was what he  
said, not all those deep things people were looking for or getting out of  them. 
I'll have to look and see if I saved that posting. I thought it  was 
important to hear that from an author.  
 
Now I am teaching this comprehension class and I am sure I will develop new  
thinking as I teach the text. I haven't gotten the second edition  yet 
(hopefully it will come today), but I am enjoying and saving the  comments. I think 
it is interesting that you feel this is something  other than a second edition. 
I wonder why the decision was made to make this a  second edition rather than 
a Mosaic of Thought 2, or two, or too?
 
Nancy 



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