I'll look for those things. Thanks. Kim On 7/4/07, Beverlee Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I've used this technique for many years and I still love it. I've > used > it more with second graders, but also with first graders on an individual > basis. > > Waaaay back when, Bill Martin did great work with this in most anything he > wrote, but I'm especially thinking of the teacher's guides of his Sounds > of > Language series that, I THINK, was published by Holt, Rinehart, and > Winston. > If you can ever get any of those materials, do; they're worth their > weight > in gold. Personally, I've thought many times of Bill Martin the last 5 > years. I'm so glad he was still alive to see that we as a profession > finally caught on to what he was telling us for decades about sounds of > language and teaching kids to read. And I'm even happier that he didn't > get > to see the gigantic 3 and 1/2 decade leap backwards the profession has > made > since his death. > > The other resource that would be helpful for this is to get a high school > teacher's composition textbook. With the background from the workshop you > attended, you will be able to transfer the concepts from that to whatever > level you need. > > Good luck! > > > > I saw a demonstration of this from a professor from Florida (I think) at > the > CATE conference in the spring. It was fascinating how she managed to get > us > to take teeny tiny sentences, like what many of my kids write, and turn > them > into a good meaty sentence very similar to the original in Across Five > Aprils. > > I understand this is NOT a new technique. She used it for revision, ELD > students, and reading comprehension. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > http://newlivehotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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