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To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
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Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:32:41 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] scope and sequence in reading/writing workshop
I recently saw, I think it was in this month's Reading Teacher, that Lucy is
coming out with reading units of study for grades 3-5 that will be available
this spring. I'm assuming that they may be similar to the writing units. I am
going to the Saturday Reunion at Columbia next Saturday, and I'm sure they will
have lots of information on them to get people interested. I will try to
remember to send you some information on that.
Linda
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From: hutch1...@juno.com
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Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:52:22 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [MOSAIC] scope and sequence in reading/writing workshop
I'm a reading specialist at a 3-5 school. We're slowly attempting to implement
a reading and writing workshop, but wondered does anyone have a scope and
sequence for grades 3-5. The teachers want some guidelines to make sure that
they're not leaving out instruction. How do you include all the genres if
students are truly choosing their independent reading?
Also, are all mini-lessons really mini? I find that when I introduce a new
strategy I tend to model, guided practice and then they independently practice
in their independent reading, but that takes me a class period (45 min) or most
of one.
Also when I look at a Lucy Calkins model for planning the time spent, they
miraculously have 2 hours for ELA, we have 2 (45 min) periods. I word it that
way because there are times when they're not adjacent. The administration
views it as 45 min - reading, 45 min ELA (writing, grammar & spelling). Though
there is a possibility of finding that 1/2 hour, it's not going to happen as it
currently is. I feel I'm fairly familiar with all of the components, just find
it tough to do the balancing act, especially in the shorter time-frame. Also,
some teachers are reluctant, so it needs to run well! If you catch my drift.
Thanks ever so much for any help! I appreciate everyone's feedback and have
found useful ideas in many e-mails from you, my colleagues! Thank you for
that!
Norma
PS I was at a reading institute at Columbia last summer and it was said that a
new, updated version of The Art of Teaching Reading would be out by now. I had
hoped that this would answer many of my questions, but............nothing yet.
Anyone from Columbia and know?
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who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
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My principal attended a conference last weekend and picked up a sample of the
new Units of Reading that will be out in May. The first book is about
establishing a reading life, with lessons on choosing books, fluency, etc. The
next 2 units are using character to study books, with focus on envisioning,
predicting, etc. The following two books are on non-fiction, then there is a
book of alternate units. Looks very good. Very expensive....$225 or something
close without mentor texts...$259 with mentor texts.
I work with 3-5 at my school, and they try hard to do true mini-lessons, though
there are some days and some lessons that are longer. The key is to cut down
what you are teaching to ONE thing, and don't try to read a mentor text during
the lesson...you need to read the book at another time and then be able to
refer back to it during the lesson. That's what we try to do anyway.
I haven't heard anything about another version of Art of Teaching Reading, and
I've been to Teacher's College recently. Maybe they were referring to the
units in reading mentioned above?
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