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Skills vs. strategies

by lavonna

Nov 22, 2010

As a first year teacher, I am on a curriculum district team (not fun!). A seasoned teacher and I debated whether we (reader's workshop teachers) should be teaching and assessing comprehension strategies (connections, questioning, visualizatio, etc.) as opposed to teaching skills (compare/contrast, main idea, etc). Her position was that it doesn't matter how they comprehend as long as they comprehend, my position is that all strategies lead to skills. We could not agree. Since we are changing to standard's based grading, she does not think that we should add those to the grade card for the same reason as above. I still think that we should focus on strategies but am intersted in what others think? So, what do you think?

Sara On 11/22/10, lavonna wrote: > As a first year teacher, I am on a curriculum district team > (not fun!). A seasoned teacher and I debated whether we > (reader's workshop teachers) should be teaching and > assessing comprehension strategies (connections, > questioning, visualizatio, etc.) as opposed to teaching > skills (compare/con...See More

Nov 22, 2010

IMO Skills must be taught and mastered. Strategies are ways to identify, implement, practice, and act upon those skills. Once the skill is internalized, the strategy loses its usefulness and is often either forgotten or so automatic as to be done without conscious thought. It would be an unusual student who could/would learn skills without the help of ...See More

Nov 22, 2010

and so... On 11/22/10, IMO wrote: > Skills must be taught and mastered. Strategies are ways to > identify, implement, practice, and act upon those skills. Once > the skill is internalized, the strategy loses its usefulness and > is often either forgotten or so automatic as to be done without > conscious thought. It would be an unusual student ...See More

Nov 22, 2010

Teri I would have > to side with the veteran teacher in that what you want to remain > when all is said and done is the comprehension. In fact, when > comprehension (the skills) are mastered, the strategies will indeed > fade and play unnoticed in the background. Strategies may help you > learn a skill, but are similar to scaffolding and ...See More

Nov 24, 2010

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