Deborah,
Are you saying that you are able to use the basal for lit circles or
are you saying that you use lit circles in addition to the basal, and
could you give examples of how you do lit circles when you are forced
to use the basal?
I think it would be helpful for people who are forced to use basal
programs to hear how others have dealt with this mandate and still
manage to incorporate best practices into their programs.
Thanks!
Renee
On Oct 13, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Deborah Lawson wrote:
I disagree. I am an older teacher. I detest basals. Several of my
colleagues feel the same way. We favor the reader/writers
workshop. Our
district forces us to use a basal, but we have found ways to
incorporate lit
circles which we believe fosters reading. The young teachers in our
district want the laid out plan.
"Whenever you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have in
front of you - a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think,
here is a little squeeze of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a
streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, until it
gives your own naive impression of the scene in front of you."
~ Claude Monet
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