i really liked Scholastic News, kids weren't always excited, this year you can show it on Smartboards, which should make it better, don't know if we can get the funding for it again, though, they have a great reading assessment twice a year too Cheryl 'Teaching is a work of heart.'
________________________________ From: "jvma...@comcast.net" <jvma...@comcast.net> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 10:26:39 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Magazines I've bounced around for years on the topic of magazines, from individual to class sets. I've subscribed to Nat'l Geo for Kids, SI for Kids, Ranger Rick--and often found kids 'read' only the pictures. So I let the subscriptions lapse. We chose a class set of Nat'l Geo Explorer for the last few years; it's visually stunning and has excellent and engaging articles--but the articles are long. To use them for modeling and groupwork was tough because of their length (and the kids wanted to read to the end). I tested 1 issue of Scholastic News last year and it actually was better: short articles but still appealing to kids--and I could easily model with them (and SN is what Harvey and Goudvis used for Strategies That Work). So I'm going with a class set of Scholastic News this year and keeping my fingers crossed. I get lots of good articles elsewhere (newspapers, magazines, Comprehension Toolkit, etc.) but I don't want to spend time/paper running off copies for the kids, so I'm going to try Scholastic News this year. We'll see. Judy _______________________________________________ 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.
