What is YA lit please??? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Linda Janney <jann...@aol.com> Sender: mosaic-bounces+cmacdon5=aol....@literacyworkshop.org Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:12:50 To: <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Reply-To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Cc: <kitso...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 51, Issue 1
I want to address both issues: content area reading and stamina. As a high school reading teacher (Florida mandates that underperforming students must take semesters of reading classes in lieu of electives.), my experience has taught me that students need a period of time during the day to read self-selected text to help build stamina. This is a practice we were fortunate to incorporate in our classes. However, it must be monitored or they will sit their and pretend to read. We spent hours teaching them how to pick out great books. We read and familiarized ourselves with YA lit. We could recommend books that teenagers literally 'eat' up! We built our kids' stamina to being able to sit for an hour engrossed in a book. I am not making this up. Oh, yes, we built large classroom libraries filled with YA lit. Now you are wondering when we had to to instruct and just what does a reading teacher do in high school. We had a smart administrator. Our blocks of time were 110 minutes long. That leaves a great deal of time for instruction and practice and monitoring. We worked on teaching our kids to think about what they were reading, not just to read the words. We taught them to mark up text, like all college students do. Cris Tovani has written several books that inspired our instructional practice. One of our best HS reading teachers was originally a middle school social studies teacher who used many of these practices in his MS classroom. I admire the fact that you want to help your kids understand what they are reading. Trust me it can be done. I did it for five years. I miss my teenagers! But now I have a chance to make a difference when they are young. Linda Janney John Muir Elementary School Second Grade "Nobody can change you unless you want the change to happen." Patrick Ndovie -----Original Message----- From: mosaic-requ...@literacyworkshop.org To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Thu, Nov 4, 2010 9:00 am Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 51, Issue 1 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mosaic-requ...@literacyworkshop.org You can reach the person managing the list at mosaic-ow...@literacyworkshop.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. High School request for ideas (ginger/rob) 2. Re: High School request for ideas (Dana Berg) 3. Re: High School request for ideas (Sally Thomas) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 21:16:00 -0500 From: "ginger/rob" <read.th...@sbcglobal.net> To: "1 mosaic list" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: [MOSAIC] High School request for ideas Message-ID: <afc3a32f30d145719a7798189522a...@kitchencomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I received this email and I believe she intended it for the Mosaic group so I am forwarding it on: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My name is C. Wright. I am trying to incorporate reading into my 11th grade content area because our students score low on the reading and social studies part of the exam. I know part of the problem is that may students do not know how to read. Some do not comprehend. So I am trying to teach students how to be successful readers on the test as well as acquire a life skill. I noticed that if the passages are long many students do not any attempt to read. My greatest problem is trying to find strategies that work during a reading assignment. The before and after is okay, but during the reading my strategies fade. Carolyn Wright wchwri...@wilcox.k12.al.us ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:12:54 -0600 From: "Dana Berg" <danae3...@bresnan.net> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] High School request for ideas Message-ID: <web-25604...@be-3.cluster1.bresnan.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1;format="flowed" On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 21:16:00 -0500 "ginger/rob" <read.th...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I received this email and I believe she intended it for the Mosaic group so > I am forwarding it on: > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > My name is C. Wright. I am trying to incorporate reading into my 11th grade > content area because our students score low on the reading and social > studies part of the exam. I know part of the problem is that may students > do not know how to read. Some do not comprehend. So I am trying to teach > students how to be successful readers on the test as well as acquire a life > skill. I noticed that if the passages are long many students do not any > attempt to read. My greatest problem is trying to find strategies that work > during a reading assignment. The before and after is okay, but during the > reading my strategies fade. > Carolyn Wright > wchwri...@wilcox.k12.al.us > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > A resource you might want to purchase is a book called,"Taking the Test"..Authored by Connrad, Allen, Zimmer...they are Colorado teachers, staff developers with PEBC...it highlights teh CSAP state test but migh offer valuable strategies. DB ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:14:42 -0700 From: Sally Thomas <sally.thom...@verizon.net> To: mosaic listserve <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] High School request for ideas Message-ID: <c8f7e3b2.2d52%sally.thom...@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I think many readers don't develop reading stamina. The effort tires them quickly, and it's especially hard when they are not motivated. I would not lower the quality of the readings but make them shorter. Pick out key passages for them to problem solve with as readers and then you fill in the gaps with your input. OR jig saw and let students teach each other their shorter parts. As an English teacher for example, I would pick 5 or 6 key scenes (either because of theme, plot, whatever) and students would read those in the original with great care and lots of discussion, often reading as readers theater etc. But I would fill in the rest. They did not have the stamina to wrestle with the whole play in Elizabethan English. How wonderful that you are seeing your role in supporting students reading in the content areas!!! Takes a village as the saying goes. Thank you. Sally On 11/3/10 7:16 PM, "ginger/rob" <read.th...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I received this email and I believe she intended it for the Mosaic group so > I am forwarding it on: > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > My name is C. Wright. I am trying to incorporate reading into my 11th grade > content area because our students score low on the reading and social > studies part of the exam. I know part of the problem is that may students > do not know how to read. Some do not comprehend. So I am trying to teach > students how to be successful readers on the test as well as acquire a life > skill. I noticed that if the passages are long many students do not any > attempt to read. My greatest problem is trying to find strategies that work > during a reading assignment. The before and after is okay, but during the > reading my strategies fade. > Carolyn Wright > wchwri...@wilcox.k12.al.us > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. 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