Thank you! That helps a lot. I ordered Test Talk and am in the process of reading it now. I can see how it will help for next year. I'm just at a loss as to what happens, but after reading part of Test Talk maybe I didn't do enough to teach it as a genre of its own. I always just hope that they will transfer the thinking they do during reading workshop and lit.circles to the test. Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yingling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued...
> We received our reading assessment scores back already (very surprising!). > 16 out of 19 (it should have been higher but a couple of kids just didn't > want to take the test) of my kids met or exceeded the Illinois state > standards on it. My scores were higher than the other two 5th grade > classes. These teachers didn't teach using the strategies, lit circles, or > reading workshop. I used the Toolkit on and off. I skipped around in it > and supplemented other activities in during some lessons. I also used lit > circles and reading workshop. I really like the Toolkit and used my own > money to purchase it because I wanted it and knew it would be excellent. I > would definitely recommend the Toolkit for 5th grade Another book that I > think was discussed on this listserv that might help you is Test Talk by Amy > Geene and Glennon Doyle Melton. It discusses how to incorporate test taking > strategies into a reading workshop. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.
