Hello, Ann et. al., I am not involved with selecting a new textbook at present, but served on many committees during the twenty years of service at the central office in my home county. Historically, Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt Brace, and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill companies have had very strong reading/literacy programs. I have recently learned that Houghton Mifflin was sold, so I don't know what kind of impact that will have on their programs in the future. Another responder mentioned Open Court and Houghton Mifflin. I have had experience with both programs, and HM was, by far, the better program. Open Court's synthetic phonics was very limiting and not especially good for learners on the lower end of the bell-curve! Average and above students did well with the program, as they would with any program. But for that reason, I would not even consider it over the other excellent programs. I'm sure that either of the top companies would provide excellent, research-based resources. But the bottom line is the expertise of the teachers using the programs. So, look carefully at all components and check the amount of scaffolding and spiraling offered by the top three. You won't go wrong with either of them. All email correspondence to and from this address is subject to North Carolina Public Records Law which may result in monitoring and disclosure to third parties, including law enforcement.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Patricia Duszlak Sent: Thu 3/8/2007 8:06 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] new Basal Adoption Hello Ann, I am serving on a committee to adopt a new basal series, probably for next year. I also teach first grade and a reading in the elementary school course as an adjunct professor. I do know that the newest Houghton-Mifflin is considered to be an excellent series. It has all the necessary components of research-based five elements of reading instruction. The other series that is equally well done is the Open-Court series. I am not as familiar with the other series, but you can be sure that they all must be based on reading research and the NCLB requirements for reading by grade three! Let me know how it is going. I will need all the input I can get! Thanks. Pat On 3/8/07, ann kirker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I would appreciate any information you might have on > the following Basal Reading Programs. My district is > in the process of adopting a new one. > > MACMILLAN/MCGRAW HILL --Treasures > > PEARSON SCOTT FORSEMAN --Reading Street > > HARCOURT SCHOOL --Story Town > > Thank you so much! > > Ann > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Don't pick lemons. > See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. > http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
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