We don't use Basel readers. However, I would love to hear if anyone has any blackline masters for making connections during reading and assessment masters that they find good.
Thanks, Laura On 23-Feb-08, at 6:08 PM, Wendy Jensen wrote: > We use the Houghton Mifflin basal but I use a reader's workshop > approach in my second grade classroom teaching the comprehension > strategies you mention. (Reading With Meaning and Mosaic of Thought > changed my teaching life!) I don't use the basal stories in the > order they are presented. I try to find how (if at all) some of > them would work to model a particular strategy. I even kept some > of my old basals because I used some of those stories to teach the > comprehension strategies. Just last week, I modeled inferencing by > making predictions with the story Ruby the Copycat from our old > basal. I read aloud and stopped at one point and had all students > predict and tell the thinking behind their prediction. Then we > shared our predictions and read the rest of the story. Our > discussion was really great about our thinking behind the > prediction. The next day the students read the story with a > partner to practice some fluency strategies. I use the basal a lot > for partner reading and sometimes even small groups. I don't use > the stories in order and I don't read them all...but I'm using the > basal, which I'm supposed to do! It's worked for me so far! > > Wendy/2nd/IA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email > Group<mailto:mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 6:58 PM > Subject: [MOSAIC] Basal in Readers Workshop? > > > Hi everyone, > > My administrator decided in the beginning of the year that it was > okay for > us to forgo our purchased basal series (Open Court) and only use > literature in our readers workshop (woo hoo!!). Flash forward to > now and > we are told that we must use them, whether it be for phonics, > literature, > etc. . . basically just use them, all this money was spent on > them ("what > we're supposed to do" is changed at least twice a year, so you > can imagine > our frustration!). > > Can anyone give me any advice or pointers or how they use their > basal in > their classroom in conjunction with quality literature? We > structure our > readers workshop based on comprehension strategies (i.e September > we work > on making connections etc.)If anyone out there, uses Open Court > and a > readers workshop setting, that would even be more helpful. > > Thank you! > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org<mailto:Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org<http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/ > options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org>. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/ > MosaicArchive<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. _______________________________________________ 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.
