I am trying to convince my principal that our current literacy instruction is ineffective and should be abandoned. We currently use a basal series, and leveled readers from the series. Students work on stations while I teach small groups. There are so many problems with this concept...
I have students who read at the Premier level up to 8th grade, yet they are all taught from the 4th grade basal. The stations are basically busy work, not matter what I do to differentiate them, and everything has to have a product (which means lots of wasted copy paper) About 6 of my 22 students do not finish or turn in their weekly stations There is absolutely no time for actual reading The lowest leveled reader that came with the series is 3.5 reading level, this does not help the 5+ students I have that read below that reading level I would like to introduce readers workshop but need some research to prove my point. Does anyone know where I can locate some? Thanks, Rosie _______________________________________________ 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.
