[MOSAIC] Best websites fo reading ideas
What have you found to be the best websites to find reading lesson plans and ideas? Pat ** Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr000520) ___ 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] Best websites fo reading ideas
On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What have you found to be the best websites to find reading lesson plans and ideas? http://www.readwritethink.org/ Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. ~ William Butler Yeats ___ 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] Best websites fo reading ideas
I belong to the reading lady found on www.readinglady.com it is wonderful!!! I also signed up for the blog. It is called mosaic, and is found on the reading lady website. I receive lots of great information. Seriously more information, articles, and book reviews than I could ever research or use. I love it. Lisa Rease [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/24/2008 9:12 am What have you found to be the best websites to find reading lesson plans and ideas? Pat ** Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr000520) ___ 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] metacognition
I've been thinking about the beginning of the year. We don't start until Aug. 27 with the kids, but my mind is swirling... I went back and found an old email I sent in several years ago that I want to share again. I continue to believe that until our students KNOW they have an inner voice and HEAR it, we can't move into more specific strategy work. So below are my ramblings about starting the year with metacognition. I have changed is the finger 1/finger 2 part. The need for a reader to recognize when he/she is confused is HUGE and needs to be taught, but I don't do the finger 1/finger 2 thing. Once they KNOW and HEAR their inner thinking voice I teach them to LISTEN for it to tell them they are lost/confused/drifting, etc. I also wrote a study that goes step by step a few years ago that I will send through. It's long but I think it's worth sending in. It's not original work by any means as it is pulled from all the expert authors in my life at the time. I know many more of us do something with metacognition at the beginning of the year. Let's all share what we do. So we can all learn more. Ginger W. Mosaic ~~ If my students have never had explicit instruction on thinking about their thinking (metacognition) then I spend even more time doing this. -- I tend to be very methodical about my teaching since I am still finding my way in this. The first year I read Mosaic I jumped right in with connections. After rereading it I realized that I needed to go way back and explicitly teach METACOGNITION. I spent a couple weeks having them get in touch with their little them who sits on their shoulder and catches them being metacognitive. Always LISTENING for their discussion they should be having in their heads as they read. I modeled my thinking aloud with everything I read. I even started modeling my thinking aloud when doing math. We defined metacognition as thinking about your thinking and they reported back to me in various way (post its, reflective written pieces, conferences, etc.) their use of it as a reader. Eventually I sent them off to read independently and their purpose was to sit their little them on their shoulder, shake hands, and REALLY be metacognitive as they read. They shared their experiences back whole group, then small group, then partners. I continued to model and name myself being metacognitive when I was. I'd often stop my reading aloud and talk to myself about what I was reading. Then I would set down the book, look out at them and say, See how I talk to myself as I read. I don't just read word after word after word without pausing to think and have a discussion with myself. I am doing it out loud so you can hear what my discussions sound like inside my brain. I am being metacognitive. I realized also that my students were not always AWARE of if they were confused or not. That became my second study focus. I did the finger one and finger two idea talked about in MOT. Before I actually taught it to my students I started doing it myself as I was reading aloud to them. I would hold up one finger just next to the book. When I got to a part that was confusing or where I found my mind wandering or that didn't make sense I switched my finger to two fingers out. Without saying anything I would talk out loud like, Oh, that doesn't make any sense. I need to go back and reread that part. I would reread it and if that helped me understand that part I put back up just one finger. If not, I would say, Well, that didn't help. Now I am going to read on a bit and see if that helps me out. I would read on a bit and if that helped me I would put back up one finger. If that didn't help me, (so I was still holding up 2 fingers) I would say, Well, rereading didn't help me, reading on didn't help me, so now I am going to have to find someone to ask because I can't go on if I don't understand this part. I would then ask my assistant and she would explain that part to me. **This is NOT used when coming across tricky words. Words I could not READ. Just for passages I was not understanding. I did this naturally for a few days. Then one day I asked if anyone had noticed me doing anything unusual with my fingers as I was reading these past few days. Of course they had. I had them tell me what they SAW me doing and what they HEARD me saying. We refined what it was I was doing and saying so we all had a common understanding of it. We talked about WHY I was doing it: because readers need to understand what they are reading to fully enjoy or learn from the words. That a book will be more rewarding if it makes sense to the reader. That that is what GOOD READERS DO!!! They don't just keep reading or put the book down when they don't understand it. (Of course we did talk about exceptions!!! :) ) From that point on they were to hold out one finger when I was reading aloud and switch it to two fingers
Re: [MOSAIC] Best websites fo reading ideas
I love www.readwritethink.org Mary - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:12 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Best websites fo reading ideas What have you found to be the best websites to find reading lesson plans and ideas? Pat ** Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr000520) ___ 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] Best websites fo reading ideas
Thinkfinity (used to be MarcoPolo) Great stuff for all subjects. Maura 5/NJ -- Original message -- From: Mary Manges [EMAIL PROTECTED] I love www.readwritethink.org Mary - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:12 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Best websites fo reading ideas What have you found to be the best websites to find reading lesson plans and ideas? Pat ** Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr000520) ___ 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] lexiles
Hi. At our middle school, the majority of our sixth and seventh graders are at level x,y. It is mainly honors students that are reading the z level and beyond books. In our classroom libraries, z's include Shakespeare, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the like. These students are most-likely the avid readers that have read everything else : ) It is our philosophy that those students can pretty much read whatever they like- the deep comprehension/understanding can be taught and assessed on the book they choose. I hope this helps and hasn't confused anyone! Alicia I've been looking at Lexile levels too now because I need to know how to define beyond Z. Has anyone created a Beyond Z list or migrated from Fountas and Pinnel to Lexile as a way to measure and match for seventh and eighth graders? Maureen Robins Assistant Principal JHS 194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Carol Carlson Sent: Fri 7/4/2008 3:27 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] lexiles Lexiles have the same limitations as any measure of the difficulty of a text. I, too, tried to correlate them to Fountas Pinnell levels and / or grade equivalents from publishers. It really didn't correlate. However, both our Illinois state test and the MAP test give lexile measures. I explain to both parents and teachers that the lexile is a good screening measure--that is it does give us some idea about how to match students to the difficulty of text. But, as we have previously discussed, that matching is only ONE criteria in matching students to text. Background knowledge, motivation, and interest also need to be considered. There is a website www.lexile.com that provides students and parents with lists of books and purports to help match students to appropriate text. The site does provide a lot of information, but it does seem to give the idea that the lexile is the end all of matching students to text. There is a section for parents and students that provides students with lists of appropriate. It does ask students to take a survey to identify their interests. I don't know, though, of any teachers that use it. Has anyone tried this? I suppose it would be one help for classroom teachers. Has anyone use it? Just as with any text measure, I caution to use it judiciously. Carol La Grange, Il Carol On Jul 4, 2008, at 2:05 PM, gina nunley wrote: I too have just accepted a new job, working as a Literacy Specialist for the state. I'll travel to different districts with my focus being the use of the Strategic Instruction Model (out of University of Kansas). My biggest sadness and concern is leaving the classroom and KIDS. Everything we do boils down to how kids react to what we do, and I am more than a little concerned about losing that direct contact, though I will have lots of opportunities for coaching in the classroom. I'll be all the more passionate about coming here to listen to teachers in the classroom Right away I have a topic to research and I wondered what understandings some of you may have. How many of you use lexile levels in your reading program? I did but have to admit they never totally made sense to me. The ranges were difficult to understand and hard to correlate to other programs. Basically I used them to determine who to give a QRI to. Can anyone share their thoughts on lexiles? I apologize if this is off the list topics. I am thinking though that in all our strategy comprehension work we're very concerned about matching kids to the right book, and always looking for a good way to measure that. _ Making the world a better place one message at a time. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace ___ 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
