A few notes from Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop by Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann
Ultimate Goal: Monitoring for meaning and solving reading problems independently
Metacognition: Cognitive Strategies for Solving Problems
- Relating new to known (Schema)
- Determining importance
- Questioning
- Creating mental images
- Inferring
- Synthesizing
There are six strategies that Keene and Zimmermann focus on in their book and six transdisciplinary units we're teaching this year. I'm thinking we assign one strategy as the focus for each unit, such that by the end of that unit the goal would be for students to be fluent in using that strategy in all their reading.
Pre-unit / Unit 1: Relating new to known (Schema) + Creating mental images
Unit 2: Determining importance
Unit 3: Questioning
Unit 4: Inferring
Units 5 + 6: Synthesizing
Thoughts?
Pre-unit / Unit 1: Relating new to known (Schema) + Creating mental images
Unit 2: Determining importance
Unit 3: Questioning
Unit 4: Inferring
Units 5 + 6: Synthesizing
Thoughts?
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