Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm, encouragement, and your help! Being so new to this (both the position of Lit & Assessment Coach AND the entire Reading arena) I didn't realize that the term 'literacy closet' was simply what our elementary schools used in reference to Fountas & Pinnell's description of a 'book room' in their book Matching Books to Readers . LeeAnn sent a great description of what her ms has: ...the books are in three categories. In one category is chapter books that teachers can use for literature circles. I try to gather them around possible themes so that a teacher can have students reading books for lit circles that are focused around a common theme. The second category is picture books in sets sized for half the class. I pair two of these sets around a common theme and then develop a scenario question that students have to write to answer and include details from the books to support their answers. This is modeled after one of the writing prompts on our state test. The third category is single picture books. These are for teachers to use as mentor texts when teaching reading strategies or writing traits. I've been trying to get all of them into a data base with information about which strategy/trait each works best with. Then when teachers come to me needing, say, a book to use for teaching word choice, I can find one for them quickly and give them the choice of several... _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your HotmailĀ®-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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