Wow, thank you so much. I am new to this group; however, I have reviewed many of the resources, powerpoints, and lesson ideas the past two years and am grateful for having ran across the resources and group. Thanks so much for your responses. My district is currently in the process of going schoolwide title. Therefore, we are in the process of implementing a "program" or model to help with this comprehensive school reform. Leaving first grade after 6 years and training this year for Reading Recovery to find out we will no longer use this program of intervention for our struggling readers, I am very bummed. I feel that if we persue the balanced literacy we once had in place along with our scope and sequence we may be able to make school improvement. In addition to all this we are looking into making one of our title teachers into a literacy coach. This is something I have wanted for a long time in order to provide professional development opportunities to other teachers who are missing out on all the great research and strategies that are out there! It is also scary for the fact that I have no idea how long this position will be available due to budget cuts and high expectations for change. With that being said, my district is much like any other district looking into all the "things" that are out there to improve instruction and data. Out of all the assessment tools and instructional tools I have reviewed, I have been interested in the LLI even though I do not promote programs! I feel that it is important to help children think and learn; however, I often wonder why we are teaching them to do well with a program and look at the transferability among other aspects of life--it's not there! The LLI does seem like a better way to address reading with actual BOOKS. I personally am not fond of AIMSWEB or DIBELS. It seems as if those children who read well, fail and those who don't read well...are not being measured in "instructional ways" even though there are parts that I feel can be expanded in the classroom as literacy instruction (cloze reading is a good strategy for reading /predicting a reasonable word that is tricky without losing meaning). Being a Reading Recovery teacher, I feel that the OS is a better indicator of strengths and weaknesses. Thanks so much for your thoughts! Jeana <http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.pipes/pix/owl_t.jpg&imgrefurl=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.pipes/vector.html&h=150&w=150&sz=11&hl=en&sig2=ThfRUpfK9fHyhMx4U3qM7Q&start=19&tbnid=vG7bH0vq0lf9zM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=96&ei=ta4uReiZOqHIaMypzcoM&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dowl%2Bmascot%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D> Jeana Wise First Grade Benton Elementary jw...@marshallschools.com _______________________________________________ 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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