Love the ideas that were presented in this email-Book Bingo and RAH-RAH Sheets (Read At Home). I will try to incorporate these ideas into my classroom this year! Amy Corbett Reading Specialist Featherbed Lane Elementary
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher." -Japanese proverb ________________________________________ From: mosaic-bounces+acorbett=bcps....@literacyworkshop.org [mosaic-bounces+acorbett=bcps....@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of beverleep...@gmail.com [beverleep...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 3:55 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Reading Homework What great ideas! I'm wondering if you've thought of using labels instead of writing by hand. You can set up your template and print enough "assignments" for everyone, slap them onto the sheets, and be done in five minutes flat. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -----Original message----- From: "mrs. teacher" <elemteac...@hotmail.com> To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 19:26:48 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Reading Homework I work in a Title 1 school, teach fourth grade, and have similar problems with homework. I used reading logs for a few years but felt it was a waste of time. I saw forged initials, parents signing a week's worth of reading on Monday, etc. I felt it was just for show. Here is what I do now for reading at home and it has worked extremely well. I stole an idea I saw out of a Really Good Stuff magazine. I created a front and back worksheet template. It simply has two boxes on each side. Each box is labeled with a day (Monday-Thursday) and has a place for initials in it. I print off enough at the beginning of each year for one a week. Each week, I handwrite questions for each night. I try to focus on whatever strategy we have been working on (Create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting 2 characters or ideas from what you read. What genre did you read tonight? How do you know?). I call these RAH-RAH Sheets (Read At Home! Read At Home!). Students read for 30 minutes and then respond to the night's question. I don't expect a long response. 1-2 sentences is all I'm looking for. Now the place for initials is not for parent's initials. Students have a RAH-RAH partner. Every morning, they must get with their partner and share their response. Their partner initials their sheet. If they didn't do it, the partner puts an X in the initial box. This is part of their morning work and does not take away any class time. I take the sheets up on Friday and grade them at 25 points a night. If their partner initialed the box, they get 25 points and if not, they get 0 points. I average all of their sheets together each nine-weeks for one RAH-RAH grade! Students who continue to have problems with this are usually students who are never going to do any homework. These students must take a book to lunch with them to read and complete their sheet everyday at lunch. They don't have silent lunch, they just have something they need to get done before they can socialize. Another assignment I do to get my kids reading outside the classroom is Book Bingo. I give one each nine-weeks and the kids must turn it in as a test grade. Each quarter is a different Book Bingo sheet - Genre, Author, Subject, and Create Your Own. These are wonderful to get kids to read things that they normally wouldn't. I have had great success with this! _______________________________________________ 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
