I get Time for Kids and the Weekly Reader. Weekly Reader is more challenging and I believe grade specific. The kids love it!!
--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Stewart, L <lstew...@branford.k12.ct.us> wrote: From: Stewart, L <lstew...@branford.k12.ct.us> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Magazines To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 10:54 PM Time for Kids is Grades 2/3. I find it too young for most of my third graders and better for second. I wish they made one specifically for third grade! Leslie R. Stewart/Grade 3 lstew...@branford.k12.ct.us 203-481-5386, 203-483-0749 FAX The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. ~Michelangelo ________________________________________ From: mosaic-bounces+lstewart=branford.k12.ct...@literacyworkshop.org [mosaic-bounces+lstewart=branford.k12.ct...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Hagerty [hager...@slcs.us] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:52 AM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Magazines Time for Kids magazines are great. You can see a sample at their website timeforkids.com. The articles are not too long and they are grade level specific. I like their content better than Scholastic. Nancy >>> <jvma...@comcast.net> 08/13/10 10:26 AM >>> 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 goin g 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
