Heather, I sent this message before I finished, so here it goes again. This is very close to the way I run my lit circles in second grade. I added the artful artist/time tracker(settinng) after they learn the first four positions. But last year when I asked for help with my second graders you suggested using RT. So while I continued with my lit circles, I also added in RT. Well, yesterday I went to school and my gifted coordinator told me my test scores were high. When I tested the children in Sept. last year. I was really worried and turned to the group for help. Even though first grade teacher's thought these students were gifted (based on oral participation and decoding skills) when I started I knew that comprehension was lacking. I started off testing oral comprehension and the class average was very low. Reading comprehension was even lower.
So I just want to say thank you. I really believe your suggestion of using RT and your directions helped these students to achieve higher reading scores. But what is more important it helped them to read with understanding. Pat K "to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." e.e. cummings On Nov 2, 2006, at 8:23 PM, Heather Wall wrote: > I'm conducting a RT group right now in my 3rd grade class, and it's > going fairly well. Here's how I do it: I have 4 cards labeled in this > way (I"m going from memory and so slightly paraphrasing): 1st card = > Questions: Who? What? When? WHere? Why?; 2nd card = Clarify: Meaning > of a word or phrase; 3rd card = Summarize. What was the section > about?; 4th card = Predict. What do you thinhk will happen next? _______________________________________________ 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.
