Re: [MOSAIC] Invitation to new Kindergarten Comprehension List!
I've tried signing up for the Kindergarten focused list and have not been able to yet. Is anyone else having difficulty? Or do we need to wait for the group to be up and running first? Thanks Deb (SpEd in IL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New Kindergarten Focused List We are going be starting a new list with focus on Kindergarten issues. You can join the list at http://snipurl.com/kinderlist This email group is created for teachers who have expressed interest in talking about teaching comprehension strategies at the Kindergarten level. I invite you to sign up for this group so we can share ideas in an effort to impact young children's comprehension skills. We’ll kick off the list in two weeks. When I was in the process of achieving my National Board Certificate, I attended a 3-year long Literacy Coaching Class that offered me the opportunity to work collaboratively with my colleagues to become part of a statewide initiative sharing best practices teaching comprehension strategies in a lab classroom setting. I created a website called Planting a Literacy Garden to share my strategies and worksheets with other early childhood teachers who want to dive into teaching and using thinking strategies with their young students. Planting a Literacy Garden can be found at: www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm Under Lessons plans click on - K-2 Website for Strategy Instruction by Michele - This link will take you directly to my webpage. Looking forward to meeting you! Michele Polselli NBCT [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://literacy-garden.tripod.com ___ 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] Differentiating literacy stations
Rosie, What basal are you required to use? Deb (SpEd in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 4:14 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Differentiating literacy stations I currently teach in a third grade classroom, my school is Title I and we are in our third year of not making AYP. We are requied to teach a 90 minute literacy block. 30-40 minutes of whole group instruction with a 60 minute rotation for stations and small group instruction. We are NOT permitted to teach any other curriculum during this time and cannot have students engage in writing activities unless it is in direct response to something they read. We MUST teach from the basal in the order dictated by the county. My question is...we are supposed to be differentiating the stations for four levels of abilities. I know that we aren't doing this correctly and sometimes not at all. How do we go about doing this? We get very little common plannig time as a grade level. Our grade level chair is expereinced with 20+ years of teaching, but the rest of us have little experience. I have looked at several great books but many of them assume you get to choose the curriculum or can integrate other subjects into the literacy block. I am truly at a loss as to what to do. There is no additional adult with me during this time. I have about five low readers, and the rest of the class is average or slightly above. HELP!!! I feel like I am about to loose my mind. Rosie **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489 ___ 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] Differentiating literacy stations
I think that is what we use in our building - let me look at the teacher's edition this week when we are back to school and see if I can come up with any ideas. Deb (SpEd in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:15 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Differentiating literacy stations In a message dated 1/5/2008 6:45:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rosie, What basal are you required to use? Deb (SpEd in IL) I am required to use Houghton Mifflin which from what I can see does not offer the differentiation that I am supposed to be doing. Rosie **Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp0030002489 ___ 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] Special Education Reading Programs
I am attending a workshop presented by Susan Barton for our county wide institute day (Feb. 29th). Deb (SpEd in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carolyn Heaney Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 3:50 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Special Education Reading Programs Is anyone familiar with the Barton program? It looks very interesting for children with Dyslexia, and any child with difficulties in reading, but I have not heard any objective reviews. Carolyn ___ 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] Dibbels Assessments
We Dibel at their grade level for the 3 benchmarks (Fall, Winter, and Spring). Depending on the student's fluency rate (my cut off chart is at school), we progress monitor at their reading level. We progress monitor every 2 weeks. Progress monitoring is only 1 one minute passage every 2 weeks. An average student (not special ed) should gain about 50 words per minute per year, I think. I can check on Tuesday when we go back. Deb (SpEd in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 1:43 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Dibbels Assessments If your school is using Dibbels for fluency assessment, please take a moment and explain how your school assesses students. Am I wrong in thinking that students have to be assessed at their own individual reading level? Our students are assessed (dibbled) at grade level wheather that is their reading level or not. Is this right??? ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ___ 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] Dyslexia
I am a special education teacher. Another way I have explained this parents is to use a block cut out letter (we have an Ellison die cut machine) of the letter b - flip the letter over to the right and it is a d - flip the letter over again to the bottom and it is a q - flip it over again to the left and it is a p. Some teachers stress the b/d confusion using the word bed - this one is hard to write - if you use your hands to make a letter b with the left hand and a d with the right hand and hold them together, you have a bed with a headboard and a footboard. Most of my children did not get this one because the concept of headboard and footboard is unknown to them. There is a program called Recipe for Reading that uses a picture of a bat and ball for the letter b and a drum and drumstick for the letter d. I have placed the b picture on the left corner of the student's desk and the d picture on the right corner. There is another saying b before c when looking at an abc chart. Personally, I use many hands-on activities using tactile items - for example tracing with your finger a sandpaper letter, cutting the letter of out needle point plastic canvas and have the students place a piece of paper over it and rub with a crayon, using shaving cream or pudding to write the letter in. Handwriting without Tears has specific language for teaching the formation of letters to reduce reversals. Deb (SpEd in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ljackson Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 11:17 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Dyslexia I've done it with a chair. Also effective. It is important when talking with parents of these young children, who often raise the concern regarding reversals, to acknowledge their concerns. Elisa is so right about responding to parental concern without undo panic and Renee has a great idea to show parents how natural it is for young children to the p-b-q-d thing. Letting them know it is not uncommon, is age appropriate and that you are aware of the reversals and willing to address them is important. Lori On 8/12/07 9:04 AM, Renee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 12, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Kathleen Ernewein wrote: .., I have noticed children that read d's as b's and q's as p's. I would never come right out and claim that these students are in fact dyslexic, but I would like to help them in anyway that I can. Hi Kathleen, Reversing letters is very common and natural until somewhere around third grade. When parents ask, I do this: I stand their child up in front of them, facing one side. I say, Here is your child. Then I turn the child around facing the other way and say, Look! It's still your child! and then I explain that for some children they may just not be seeing the difference yet between facing one way and facing another way. Makes sense to me, anyhow! Renee And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ John Lennon / Paul McCartney ~ Carry That Weight ___ 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. -- Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 57555 http:www.tcsdk12.org ph. 605.856.2211 Literacies for All Summer Institute July 17-20. 2008 Tucson, Arizona ___ 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] suggestions for commercial phonics/decoding games
I love my laminator from Sam's as well. I purchase the 8 1/2 X11 pouches from Sam's but I purchase 8 1/2 x 14 and small menu size 12 x 18 for my file folders from a company that gives you a third box free when you purchase 2 boxes of the same size. I'm not sure the list will allow the name of the company but you can do a Google search for it. Deb (Sp Ed in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:06 PM To: mosaic Subject: [MOSAIC] suggestions for commercial phonics/decoding games I have to tell you that I bought my own laminator this year from Sam's Club. I LOVE it. The laminating material is a little thicker, which makes it more durable. I also don't have to spend the extra hours standing in front of the laminator at school. I can do it at home sitting and watching television. I think it is one of the best moves I have made. Just a thought. Cindy/VA/2nd ___ Mosaic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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] Fast Track Reading
If you are speaking of Direct Instruction Fast Track - it is specifically designed for 1st and 2nd I thought. I have used this in other districts I have been in. The regular Reading Mastery series is for older students but I believe it starts with 3rd graders. Deb (SpEd in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of baguzman Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:14 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fast Track Reading This can not be the same thing. This is specifically for Pre-K and K. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fast Track Reading It was my understanding that Fast Track was an intervention program for older readers (fourth through eighth grade). Unless they have developed a program component for younger readers, I would hesitate to use program materials designed for fourth graders with pre- kindergarten children. What the principal should be recommending is for parents to simply read, and discuss quality picture books with their children. Suzanne ___ 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] Rhyming
I'm interested in your thoughts and suggestions as well. I teach a self contained cross categorical special education classroom of 7, 8, and 9 year olds and I have the same problems with rhyming. Deb (SpEd in IL) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christine Ann Mathews Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:59 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Rhyming I was wondering if anyone has some tips on helping students rhyme. I am working with a 1st grader who cannot rhyme or recognize when two words rhyme. I have tried give examples of two words that rhyme, but he is unable to reproduce that same skill with other words. I was curious to know if any of you had some suggestions of what we could do to help this student out. Thanks! ___ 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] Time to check in
Sorry to send this to the whole group - Cheri, I emailed you personally as well and my email came back as undeliverable. Deb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deb Kurns Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv' Subject: [MOSAIC] Time to check in Cheri I received your message and I've thought that the list serv has been a little busy lately. I've gotten 31 messages since Early Sunday. Deb (SpEd in IL) ___ 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.
