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Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach and Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 5755 ----- Original message ----- From: Felicia Barra <fcbsm...@optonline.net> To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group' <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Building comprehensionofquestions-washeartbreak/response to R... > Lori, > > Just curious, do you have full day kindergarten? > > -----Original Message----- > From: mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org > [mailto:mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Ljackson > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:33 AM > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Building comprehension of > questions-washeartbreak/response to R... > > We have seen some amazing results this year in kindergarten classrooms using > No More Letter of The Week as a means of introducing and building > letter-sound associations in combination with a guided writing approach that > emphasizes shared composition and teacher modeling of invented spelling > (that becomes more sophisticated across the year). I have been monitoring > the data very closely and though this is simply comparison of existing > measures, what we see is compelling. In our two classrooms where teachers > have fully implemented, in collaboration here are some of our celebrations: > The highest levels of letter recognition AND sound association; more than > 75% of each classroom meeting mid-year benchmarks for proficiency in > reading; in one classroom, all but one child scored 3 or 4 on a four point > rubric for writing in use across the district (where, in the past, kinders > rarely score higher than 1)--the other classroom has no 1's and about one > third scoring two with the rest scoring > 3's (both teachers were so in awe of their own results that they asked that > the pieces be blind-scored by myself and two other teachers and the results > held up); Gentry's Monster test results showed all that 22 of 23 and 19 of > 25 children were advanced spellers, performing at end of kindergarten to mid > first grade when scored in early January. Those who know me know the > challenges of reaching and teaching children in our setting and this has > been such an exciting year. I have to say that this, in combination with > strategy work, is the most promising news we have had for our early readers > in years. And, joyfully, these rooms are still the picture of what I would > hope early childhood should be--playful, age-appropriate with a sense of > playing at learning rather the kinds of environments that feel as though we > are stripping children of childhood. > > > > Lori Jackson > District Literacy Coach and Mentor > Todd County School District > Box 87 > Mission SD 5755 > > ----- Original message ----- > From: creeche...@aol.com > To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:13 AM > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Building comprehension of > questions-washeartbreak/response to R... > > > > > > > In a message dated 2/20/2009 7:44:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > > elwaingor...@cbe.ab.ca writes: > > > > what does the independent research say about Direct Instruction programs > > > > Elisa, > > I did some research on this exact question in my dissertation. I could > write > > about it for hours (actually I did!), > > but what I found in a very limited nutshell, was that in kindergarten > > intervention students, DI works teaching children to decode. It did not > make a > > difference in comprehension. In first grade intervention students, writing > > > workshop worked just as well as DI in teaching children to decode and that > the > > children also became better writers! > > > > I did a lot of reading of the research Amy cited, Project Follow Through, > > > and it had some major flaws. > > DI people rely heavily on Follow Through research, which is now over 40 > > years old. > > > > Nancy > > > > > > **************Need a job? 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