Carol, That's just what I was thinking of focusing on this summer. Our state standards are about to be updated, and I've been told that they will require 50% of the reading that fifth grade students do is to be nonfiction. By working with these struggling learners in this area, I hope to give them a leg up. Using text features, determining main ideas, context clues for vocabulary, summarizing what was read, and most certainly fluency, so they can read more in a given amount of time, will be some of the instruction I am aiming to deliver. Maura 5/NJ ----- Original Message ----- From: hccarl...@comcast.net To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:00:49 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] 5th grade summer school
One year, we focused on "determining importance." If you do it with non fiction, there are so many stragegies you can tap into--summarizing, text features and how they help, text structure (chronological, order of importance, etc). Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: cnjpal...@aol.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 6:42:47 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] 5th grade summer school Carrie When I teach elementary summer school, I try to focus intensely on three things...inferring, strategies for learning vocabulary, and a high volume of reading high interest literature. In my opinion, the ability to infer leads to so many other skills...like predicting outcomes, analyzing characters, cause and effect...etc etc etc. Jennifer In a message dated 5/18/2010 10:54:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, carrie.da...@bufordcityschools.org writes: I am getting ready to teach 5th grade summer school. I am looking for any suggestions about short term, possibly intense instruction. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ 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.
