Dear Mosaic group, I am working on making my flexible groups in my readers workshop easier to manage for my grade 2 classroom which is full of many gifted children. Some of the groups that I am seeing develop are:
- Understanding what the author's message is. - Understanding how to tell between the main author's message and sub-messages. - Reading with expression - Understanding what the text features are of a fiction book (most of them really get a non-fiction book but are still stuck on Fiction) - I'm sure there are many more I will see soon but they have not popped onto my radar yet. I used to really waist my time and go through my guided reading books looking for books that would go with each one of the flexible groups that I was forming. I'm sure there is some smart professor, website, book ,etc... that has already thought of this idea and made lists of possible flexible groups like: Author's message and all the leveled books that you can read that really help you highlight Author's message in a clear way for kids in the Lower Primary grades. For example if I was working on reading with expression I may recommend any of the *Froggy *books by Jonathon London. They are great mentor texts for expression. Does anyone else know some book or web page that does this for a long list of possible flexible groupings for reading with grade 2 kids? I'm thinking I've seen something like this in one of Debbie Miller's books does anyone know the Title? Thanks, Betty Nelson HKIS-LP Grade 2 Teacher Website: http://msnelsonsgrade2.weebly.com/index.html _______________________________________________ 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
