Re: [MOSAIC] interview today!
Good luck. I am sending lots of positive energy to you. Is that typical for an interview to watch you do a lesson??? --- On Fri, 6/27/08, chris and teresa casart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: chris and teresa casart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MOSAIC] interview today! To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 7:41 AM Today I am interviewing for a job at a school who has embraced the concept of a balanced literacy program and the ideas presented in Mosaic of Thought!!! The principal with whom I will be interviewing was a literacy strategist before she became a principal. She is bringing in a group of kids and has asked me to teach a comprehension lesson. I AM IN HEAVEN! I am really excited for this opportunity! When I resigned from my teaching job at the end of this school year (without having another job), I knew I was taking a big risk, but I wanted to teach in a school that really embraces what I value in education. This opportunity has come about in less than a week! My hubby met someone in a grad class who teaches in this district, and she encouraged me to apply. So, last Thursday, I applied online. By Tuesday, I had this interview lined up. It almost seems too good to be true, but I'm going in with confidence, a positive attitude, and lots of prayer! Teresa ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] interview today!
I think this district has most people teach a lesson as part of their interview process. I think it's a good idea, myself. I've often just wanted to invite people into my classroom to watch me teach instead of sitting around a table talking about teaching. It makes sense to me. Teresa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Susanne Lee Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 6:49 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] interview today! Good luck. I am sending lots of positive energy to you. Is that typical for an interview to watch you do a lesson??? --- On Fri, 6/27/08, chris and teresa casart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: chris and teresa casart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MOSAIC] interview today! To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 7:41 AM Today I am interviewing for a job at a school who has embraced the concept of a balanced literacy program and the ideas presented in Mosaic of Thought!!! The principal with whom I will be interviewing was a literacy strategist before she became a principal. She is bringing in a group of kids and has asked me to teach a comprehension lesson. I AM IN HEAVEN! I am really excited for this opportunity! When I resigned from my teaching job at the end of this school year (without having another job), I knew I was taking a big risk, but I wanted to teach in a school that really embraces what I value in education. This opportunity has come about in less than a week! My hubby met someone in a grad class who teaches in this district, and she encouraged me to apply. So, last Thursday, I applied online. By Tuesday, I had this interview lined up. It almost seems too good to be true, but I'm going in with confidence, a positive attitude, and lots of prayer! Teresa ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] interview today!
Good luck and a big high five for taking the risk! Nicole in NC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chris and teresa casart Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] interview today! I think this district has most people teach a lesson as part of their interview process. I think it's a good idea, myself. I've often just wanted to invite people into my classroom to watch me teach instead of sitting around a table talking about teaching. It makes sense to me. Teresa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Susanne Lee Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 6:49 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] interview today! Good luck. I am sending lots of positive energy to you. Is that typical for an interview to watch you do a lesson??? --- On Fri, 6/27/08, chris and teresa casart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: chris and teresa casart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MOSAIC] interview today! To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 7:41 AM Today I am interviewing for a job at a school who has embraced the concept of a balanced literacy program and the ideas presented in Mosaic of Thought!!! The principal with whom I will be interviewing was a literacy strategist before she became a principal. She is bringing in a group of kids and has asked me to teach a comprehension lesson. I AM IN HEAVEN! I am really excited for this opportunity! When I resigned from my teaching job at the end of this school year (without having another job), I knew I was taking a big risk, but I wanted to teach in a school that really embraces what I value in education. This opportunity has come about in less than a week! My hubby met someone in a grad class who teaches in this district, and she encouraged me to apply. So, last Thursday, I applied online. By Tuesday, I had this interview lined up. It almost seems too good to be true, but I'm going in with confidence, a positive attitude, and lots of prayer! Teresa ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] phonemic awareness/segmentation help wanted
All of my children require explicit instruction. The only trouble is that they need explicit instruction in different things at different times. I address this during conferring while sitting alongside a reader. Most of the time when children are having trouble lifting the text off a page it's because the text is too difficult to use for instruction. When there is too much to teach, every word is an effort. A more supportable text is required. Ruby - Original Message From: Linda Crumrine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:22:55 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] phonemic awareness/segmentation help wanted Hi, I have been reading all the posts and basically agreeing with what everyone has been saying - even when the posts were contradictory! I think that different readers require different types of instruction, and that our challenge is to understand the needs of our learners and teach accordingly. I think most readers learn best in context. However, some children need explicit skill work, and then need explicit instruction in how to apply the skills they are learning to the reading process. I have found that the more a student struggles, the more explicit I need to be. Some students who appear to be over phonicated, have actually not become automated enough so that they can leave the decoding stage. Lifting the words off the page requires so much cognitive energy that there is nothing left over for constructing meaning. My analogy is that I am athletically challenged. Immersing me in softball did not help me to improve my game, although most of my friends improved. I would have required much more specific instruction on how to catch and hit a ball in order to become barely adequate. Consequently, I can still not play softball. Sorry I rambled, Linda ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] interview today!
Teresa, YOU GO, GIRL!! **Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut000507) ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] interview today!
You go girl! **Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut000507) ___ 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] getting started...
I don't know about all of you, but I would love to hear more about Steph Harvey's institute! I am guessing we may have several new members as a result of this session since I have heard that this listserv and the tools page were promoted there! I am betting that many of these newest members have a lot less experience in strategy teaching and readers workshop. Would any of our long term members like to talk a little about how they felt as newbies...how you went about making the change to strategy teaching...what was challenging for you and how you overcame the challenges? As for me personally, I have been teaching strategies for a while, but I finally have the go ahead to actually do readers workshop for some of my intervention groups and I would love to hear how you all got started in teaching strategies in reading workshop. How do you set up the workshop? I am particularly interested in how you balanced comprehension teaching with surface structure systems in the primary grades! AND I will only have an hour a day with each grade: K, 1 and 2 Jennifer **Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut000507) ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued...
Hi Mary Helen, Our district committed to the STW a few years ago. This past year I bought the Comprehension Toolkit Gr. 3-6 and used it. It was wonderful! I went through nearly every lesson as recommended. The kids really responded. (I teach 6th grade LA.) I will be refining and adding to it in the upcoming year. I spent my 2nd and 3rd nine weeks immersed in non-fiction and STW. Best, Kim - Original Message - From: Mary Helen Chappetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:04 PM Subject: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued... I just spent 2 fabulous days learning from Stephanie Harvey along with 14 staff members from my school. The only other school that out-numbered us was Ginger'sLiberty! Way to go! I had a great conversation with Ginger (so nice to put a face with the name!) It was like meeting a 'rock star'! My staff did not understand my excitement because they are new to mosaic...I hope some of them have signed on to learn! As I told Ginger, I have been a lurker on the site, was off for a while, but have been back for a bitreading and trying to refresh and learn/relearn about the strategies. Now I am officially a 'poster'! Hearing Stephanie Harvey speak and feeling her passion was incredible. I would love to know if there are any 'newbies' out there who are just getting started and others who are veterans who can support the newbies in the quest to be better teachers of thinkers. I think of the great conversations that happened upon the release of both Mosaic and STW last summer as well as To Understand by Ellin Keene this summer.the book conversations were and have been, as always, thoughtful. What I wonderfor those of you that have been part of the growth of a professional learning community using Comprehension strategies, and have witnessed the positive impact, would you share the approach you took? Is there anything in particular you did to get started? What is the one piece of advice/experience/wisdom you would share for those of us just embarking on this venture? What obstacles did you face and how did you face them? Mary Helen ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued...
Hi Mary, Unfortunately, I won't get my reading scores back until the fall. (Our state recently revamped the EOG test and will be analyzing...) My kids did great on the nonfiction parts of our benchmarks. Here is my thinking on this (it is still evolving)... If you teach the students how to read well, they will do well on the test. However, tests, I believe, are a genre unto themselves. (Harvey says this.) That being the case, it is helpful to teach test reading just as you would teach them how to approach any genre. I didn't spend a lot of time on it...but I did approach it like any other genre. Regarding the toolkit...I just jumped in with both feet and let it guide me. I was so impressed with how deep and rich the student conversatons were (with one another) and as a class. We did *not* do any of the typical comprehension questions at the end of our reading. Rather, we completed organizers while we read, left tracks of our thinking, paired and shared, had group discussions, then came back together as group. The students actually transferred the strategies to their other subjects! It was helpful to me because this past year I had returned to teaching language arts after a stint in world of social studies. (Plus, this was my first year with this state's curriculum and I felt overwhelmed.) Of course, I definitely will adapt not adopt and, I'm sure, be changing/tweeking this coming year. Kim - Original Message - From: Mary Manges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued... Lynelle, Mary Helen, or anyone else, What are your scores like on the reading assessment? I am curious because mine have been low and the pressure is mounting. I teach using strategies and use lots of literature circles and reading workshop. I love the thinking, true thinking that I see in my classroom and would never trade my strategies for a basal or more test prep, but I feel that I'm going to be forced to change something. This year I worked in a coach book lesson that I thought would tie in whatever I was teaching, hoping for a slightly more authentic approach to getting them ready for the test. I spent the weeks leading up to the test teaching the format and trying to prepare them, which is a huge waste of valuable educational time. I'm wondering if I should buy the Toolkit myself or try to talk someone in administration into buying it for me. I have done everything I know to teach authentically and to stay true to what I believe. I hate the testing pressure and am truly at a loss as an educator. Can you give me any direction as far as a connection between testing and the Toolkit. I feel so shallow asking that, but I think anyone in public education, especially in a testing grade would understand. Thanks a bunch! Mary 5th grade/PA - Original Message - From: Lynnelle Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued... Mary Helen, Our school district just adopted the Toolkit as our reading program. (My school is in year 3 of the reader's workshop with the strategies.) However, I met with a group of ladies from another site who had gone to the training with Stephanie Harvey's Consultant and it was fabulous! I sat down and asked them what questions they had for me. Many of them were very thought provoking. Some of them were very simple. Our district is relatively new with the PLC idea, but having been a curriculum instructor and a classroom teacher I have learned the best approach for me is What can I do to help you with this new idea? My advice would be to allow the participants who need to make small steps that opportunity. If there is one thing I learned as a curriculum instructor it is not every goes full throttle with a new idea like me! :-) Your enthusiasm for this will also lead! Many people see our passion and excitement and usually they will grab on!! Good Luck!! Lynnelle Winter 5th Grade West Intermediate - Original Message - From: Mary Helen Chappetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:04 PM Subject: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued... I just spent 2 fabulous days learning from Stephanie Harvey along with 14 staff members from my school. The only other school that out-numbered us was Ginger'sLiberty! Way to go! I had a great conversation with Ginger (so nice to put a face with the name!) It was like meeting a 'rock star'! My staff did not understand my excitement because they are new to mosaic...I hope some of them have signed on to
Re: [MOSAIC] RIT with Stephanie Harvey continued... - Kim
What were your organizers like that you used while you read? Are they in the files section? I struggle with giving the students grades over their comprehension of their novels. Right now, I have them complete a reflection journal as the read. They predict before reading, write wonderings during reading, and write a one sentence summary and a reflection statement after reading. They do this each day. I'm just not sure how to grade their journals. Regarding the toolkit...I just jumped in with both feet and let it guide me. I was so impressed with how deep and rich the student conversatons were (with one another) and as a class. We did *not* do any of the typical comprehension questions at the end of our reading. Rather, we completed organizers while we read, left tracks of our thinking, paired and shared, had group discussions, then came back together as group. The students actually transferred the strategies to their other subjects! ___ 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.
