Thank you for the website on this program. I may be wrong but it looks as though this program is just best practice teaching with a huge price tag. As a reading specialist, I am so frustrated by administrators who throw these "programs" at us and tell us to only use "this". These programs are insulting in that publishers tell us what to do, what questions to ask, what the answers are, etc. They (administrators and publishers) treat us as though we don't have a clue as to what we are doing.
Buying hardcover, good quality books so that kids can read and have book talks is what get kids interested in reading and get them to learn to read with purpose and understanding. Kathy ________________________________ From: "Smith, Kay" <kaysm...@selah.k12.wa.us> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 10:45:03 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10 I have been working with an instructional framework called Reading Apprenticeship which is especially designed for adolescent readers. This is our district's first year working with this particular approach so the jury is still out whether it is effective or not. My own teacher sense tells me it has the potential to be effective if modeled and implemented consistently with students. The central idea of the framework is that the teacher is the master reader in the class room and you are "apprenticing" your students in working with the strategies they need to read difficult text. The website is: http://www.wested.org/cs/sli/print/docs/sli/ra_framework.htm Email me off list if you have more questions. Training costs a bundle but is well worth it if your district is willing to invest the $$. Kay -----Original Message----- From: mosaic-bounces+kaysmith=selah.k12.wa...@literacyworkshop.org [mailto:mosaic-bounces+kaysmith=selah.k12.wa...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of plongshell Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 4:08 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 38, Issue 10 I I have a question for reading teachers who work with middle school or higher kids...after working for years with grades 1-4 and infrequently 5, I'm in a 6,7,8 school providing intervention services. I've worked with middle schoolers before, but not as an interventionist. So many of my strategies deal with the learning to read aspect and using Harvey and Gouvdis thinking strategies, but my kids have had quite a bit of that and are still behind. I'm trying to figure out what are the best kind of generic interventions that can be provided in 40 minute 3 day blocks to my varied students. We aren't supposed to operate as a resource room, and often can't because the kids come from different teams of teachers. Anyone out there with ideas? Michelle- NY AIS _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
