What is Strategies Together, anyway? Well, here's our fancy educators' definition:
Readers combine strategies as needed to come to a fuller understanding of text. Strategies interact with each other, overlap, and are recursive. They are not "stand alones.".
But for your students, try this:
Use strategies together to understand what I read.
We introduce these strategies one at a time by modeling our own use of each one. Then we give students time to practice each strategy. We are aware, however, that these strategies do not occur in isolation. Strategic readers are connecting, inferring, questioning, visualizing, and synthesizing continually as they read.
—Stephanie Harvey and Ann Goudvis, from Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding,
2000, p. 20
Harvey, Stephanie & Anne Goudvis.
Harvey, Stephanie & Anne Goudvis.
Let's hear what teachers have to say about using strategies together.
So, how do you make it happen?
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