These three books together are a powerful combination.

You can also read Reading With Meaning on line at
www.Stenhouse.com

Also, one other suggestion I have is to read the chapter on questioning
(or whatever strategy) in both books. I really liked combining my
reading with the three books.
deb

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From: PMurphyNAM@aol.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 04:39:06 EDT
Subject: [mosaic] Poem re. comprehension/ To MaryPhillips, let me know if you get this.

Here's a poem that deals with the comprehension process that I'll share with
the group to test the mail system:

Unlock the shape of a letter, a word,
Find a meaning that fits the shape,
Engage the meaning into a train of several such,
Link the train to others, to many.
Carry a cargo of ideas along
Link, unlink, and sort almost unaware.
Check the cargo, validate the load.
Come to a check point, check.

Repeat the process, repeat.
Arrive at a destination carrying the
Necessary, the useful, the valued.

And find the meaning rainbow wrapped in color,
emotion, response, and inner knowledge.
Find the cargo is no longer his; theirs;
Now, it belongs to you.

-Reba Estra

Source: Teaching Reading Comprehension Processes, Second Edition
collected & typed by Patricia Murphy, Native American Magnet School- P.S.#19

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From: "Mabry" <mabrysl@charter.net>
Subject: [mosaic] Synthesis idea
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:31:18 -0500

I thought I would tell you all about an idea that
a high school principal told me about when he
attended a workshop I gave last week. I was
explaining 1, 2, 3 eye to eye, knee to knee and the
various ways you could potentially use it when he
told me about how he used a similar method with
high schoolers and synthesis. He would read a
passage/paragraph/page of a book and then give his
students 30 seconds with a partner to discuss a
main idea/synthesis statement about that particular
part. They then had to individually write down their
own statement in one minute in a notebook that they
kept for the whole story or passage. He said that
by the end of the story or passage, the students
then had a group of excellent synthesizing statements
from which to go back to in order to relate to the
whole story. He said the best thing was that the
statements usually were made from their own connections
so they had real staying power with his students.
Lori

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