Out of all the readings this week, I found it most valuable to re-read Keene and Zimmerman's Mosaic of Thought. In the first chapter, the authors discuss comprehension strategies, and their importance. In the second chapter they answer questions about the instruction and use of these strategies. As a reading teacher, I am very comfortable with teaching children to make connections, visualize and ask questions as they read, but at some point their was a shift from strategy to labeling. Suddenly, if I asked a student "What did this book make you think of?" They were stumped! However, if I rephrased and asked "Did you make any connections?" They had so much to say--I hadn't been teaching strategies so much as labeling them. I realized that I had lost sight of the cognitive outcomes that the use of these strategies should lead to.
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