Thanks Jan! That was very helpful! Meghan Pitzer 3rd Grade Teacher Clay Springs Elementary (407) 884-2275 x2233
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jan sanders Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 7:16 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Text-to-Self Mini-Lesson Question Hi Meghan- I am confused with the comment "it should take several days to get through a mini-lesson doing think aloud for the students with one picture". To me a mini-lesson is just that -mini. It has one teaching point and should take about 10 minutes. I use a read aloud to model my thinking as a reader. You do not have to read the whole book in one sitting. I model the strategy I want my students to try, have them try it in a turn and talk with a partner, and then restate what I want them to try during independent reading and send them off to practice it. I do believe it will take several days for the students to be able to fully take on the strategy. When teaching schema, I would often get frustrated with the surface, go no where connections. The character has a dog, so a child says I have a dog -however, the dog is not meaningful to the story... So now I ask my students to figure out why the author wrote the story -what is the message. Then they work on making a connection to the message of the story. Example: The message is you should try an be friends with people who are different than you. I have a connection with this because when school started there was a new kid here from Georgia and he had no friends. People thought he was weird because he talked "funny". I made friends with him and you know what -he doesn't talk funny -he just sounds different than me. I also learned over time, that if you want students to get better at something they need LOTS of practice time. My independent reading time is 45 minutes. By the way, I teach 3rd grade this year. I was a literacy/math coach for the past 7 years. Jan We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. -Robert Shaffer ----- Original Message ----- From: Pitzer, Meghan L.<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org<mailto:mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:48 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Text-to-Self Mini-Lesson Question Hi! I am just beginning to "teach" Reading the Mosaic way. I have read the book and absolutely love it! I began with a schema lesson and started right in to introducing text-to-self connections. I was reading aloud a book to the class that I could make connections with. I was getting through a picture book per lesson for 7 days. I then talked to a good friend of mine over email who was floored that I was getting through that much! She says that it should take several days to get through a mini-lesson doing think aloud for the students with one picture. I was just wondering if someone could give me some insight as to what more I could be doing to make the lessons go a little deeper and some ideas of books that are great to model this strategy. I feel that I am not being as effective as I could be. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Meghan Meghan Pitzer 3rd Grade Teacher Clay Springs Elementary (407) 884-2275 x2233 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this e-mail message is intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain privileged information. Tampering with or altering the contents of this message is prohibited. This information is the same as any written document and may be subject to all rules governing public information according to Florida Statutes. Any message that falls under Chapter 119 shall not be altered in a manner that misrepresents the activities of Orange County Public Schools. 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