Re: [MOSAIC] Grammar
I would also like this. Thanks so much! ccm1...@bellsouth.nwt -- Original message from SPINELLO, Carol cspine...@branford.k12.ct.us: -- Hi Leslie,That would be great. My e-mail address is cspine...@branford.k12.ct.us or Carol Spinello John B. Sliney School 23 Eades Street Branford, CT 06405 Thanks, Carol -Original Message-From: mosaic-bounces+cspinello=branford.k12.ct...@literacyworkshop.org [mailto:mosaic-bounces+cspinello=branford.k12.ct...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of lesp...@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:16 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Grammar I have a scope and sequence that I can send you if you'd like to see it. ?We used several sources to come up with one that is meaningful to us. ?It will be implemented this year and then reflected upon and revised as needed. Leslie P -Original Message- From: SPINELLO, Carol To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group' Sent: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 9:19 am Subject: [MOSAIC] Grammar Hello All, The assistant superintendent in my district has asked me to post a message regarding grammar instruction. What are teachers using K-8? How is grammar taught and what results have you seen? Any and all information would be much appreciated. Thank you, Carol Spinello Literacy Specialist Branford, CT ___ 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] Do we really need to teach explicit strategies?
I have ordered this book and can't wait to read it. Thanks for sharing your excitement! Cathy -- Original message from Joanne Stano jst...@wadsnet.com: -- I am currently reading Comprehension by Collaboration by Harvey and Daniels. In chapter 2 they discuss reading is thinking . Comprehension is about understanding. When we teach comprehension, we are teaching for understanding. They go on to say that readers need explicit instruction to decode and comprehend text and that when teachers explicitly teach they show kids how the reading process happens. The point is we need to teach the comprehension strategies explicitly but need to also let students respond to their reading in authentic ways. I think we get caught up in the responses, thinking we need evidence for reporting tools. Thus the over emphasis in strategy instruction. I am really excited about this book and can't wait to put the ideas to work. I also like the fact that they talk about how in the business world if you get 85% participation you are a success if we get 85% we fret and stew. They also give ideas for making small groups inquiry circles successful and lesson ideas. The book also sites many sources and makes me want to look them up which is exactly what I want my students to feel and do. Joanne/Ohio/3rd ___ 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] possible weekly study of strategies?
I am very interested! Cathy -- Original message from cnjpal...@aol.com: -- This sounds like a great idea, but there is no need to create a new website for resources. This listserv already has one! We can ask Keith, our tech person, to post our ideas/materials as we discuss them. Jennifer List moderator In a message dated 6/7/2009 7:38:22 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lh...@cinci.rr.com writes: am fairly new to this group and now that I'm out for the summer I feel like I have time to really think about how to use the different strategies as well as research more information. Forgive me if this has been done, but would anyone be interested in doing a weekly study of each of the strategies - for example, one week on questioning, the next on visualizing, etc? Each week we could talk about different resources you use, books, strategies for teaching and sharing any materials you have created. I'd be willing to create a website linking anything shared so that we could all have ready access to the materials. **An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377042x1201454362/aol?redir=http:// www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072hmpgID=62bcd=Jun eExcfooterNO62) ___ 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] Textmapping for beginners
Dave, This sounds wonderful! Can you recommend a short novel to use at the beginning of fourth grade? When is your book coming out? Cathy -- Original message from Dave Middlebrook davemiddlebr...@verizon.net: -- Hi Diane, I'll start with a simple idea: Try scrolling a short novel that the students have read, and post the scroll on the wall somewhere in the room. Do a quick walk-through summary -- literally, by walking along the scroll and saying what happens. As you walk and talk, make marks or use sticky notes along the scroll. You'll come back to these later. Encourage your students to interrupt you as you are doing this. They may want to mention something that you missed -- for example, an observation about the plot or the characters, or some detail. Others may want to weigh in, as well. Encourage conversation. Post sticky notes to record student observations. Have them tell you where the notes should go. If a student needs to find a particular event so that a note can be posted there, have the other students help -- tell them that their job is to be detectives. If, for instance, one student finds an event that happened before the one in question, that's a useful clue as to where to look. Help your students be strategic about bracketing and homing in on specific parts. These are useful searching skills that are even more important in bound books. If you let the students engage and share their thoughts, you will likely not make it through your summary. I'd consider that a success! Student engagement in the conversation is the real goal. You're walk-through is just a conversation-starter. The scroll will help your students remember the story. It will help them generate questions and inferences. I will help them determine importance. It will help them with sequencing, recalling details, and putting it all together for a much richer comprehension. There are significant differences between the process of doing this by paging through a bound book and doing this on a scroll. The spatial diimension -- the physical sense of the scroll's length and of where different observations tie to the text (the scatter-plot trail of sticky notes -- is very powerful. The fact that you and your students can see it all at once is very powerful. You can do a lot with scrolls. If this sounds like it might work for you, then save it and use it. Contact me if you want to talk through the lesson in more detail. Or if this doesn't sound right for you, tell me what you might be starting off with next Fall and I'll suggest a way that scrolls can help improve the lesson. I hope that this is helpful. Thanks for your interest! - Dave Dave Middlebrook The Textmapping Project A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills instruction. www.textmapping.org | Please share this site with your colleagues! USA: (609) 771-1781 dmiddlebr...@textmapping.org - Original Message - From: Diane Smith To: Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:24 PM Subject: [MOSAIC] Textmapping for beginners Hi! I am going to be teaching fourth graders next fall and just heard about the idea of textmapping. I find it intriquing. No one I know has heard of this concept at my school, so my students will not have any previous experience with it. Can you give suggestions on how to begin and types of text to use? ___ 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] Daily Five Questions
Thank you sooo much! I recognized the lessons and love the idea of creating the lesson for the children to do independently. This is really awesome to me! I do not have iMovie (I don't think) but I do have a new Mac and it costs very little so I will certainly buy it this week! I am moving from second grade to fourth grade and really want to do this for word work. I will have 9 computers in my classroom so the rest is easy! I may contact you later to ask more questions! Cathy -- Original message from Angela Almond angela_alm...@scs.k12.nc.us: -- I used iMovie to make the videos. I'm sure you could use a program on a PC, I'm just not familiar with those. As far as the lesson itself, I used a Four Block book called Making Big Words Grade 4. It was a book full of worksheets a student would do independently that I just read off to turn into a lesson. Once I figured out how to do the videos, I could make and edit them in about 30 minutes and since I plan on using them over and over, year after year, I thought it was a good investment of my time. I also go other teachers to start making them. I have about 5 more that are not on the website now. One of them is done by my principal, another by my husband. The kids LOVE them! mosaic@literacyworkshop.org writes: Angela, I love the videos that you created for word work. =C2=A0Would you please te= ll me what you used to create them? Angela Hatley Almond, NBCT Fourth Grade East Albemarle Elementary School ___ 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] Daily Five Questions
Angela, I love the videos that you created for word work. Would you please tell me what you used to create them? Thanks so much! Cathy -- Original message from Angela Almond angela_alm...@scs.k12.nc.us: -- mosaic@literacyworkshop.org writes: Hi, I'm planning to start The Daily Five next year with my second graders. I have read the book and have bought The CAFE book as well. I have a few questions. **I teach fourth grade so keep that in mind while I respond!** 1. How long is YOUR Daily Five? I don't know how the sisters fit the DF along with writing, math, science, social studies and specials all into the afternoon. I've done the math and it literally does not add up to the amount of minutes in the day. And that does not even take into account recess (which all our kids need), transitions, getting ready for home, birthday parties, assemblies, etc.What works for you? **I actually do a Weekly Five because I only have 30 minutes of Daily Five time each day. I only teach reading so in each of my blocks, I teach for 45 minutes and then do Daily Five the last 30.** 2. After you do your mini-lesson ( say a comprehension strategy) and students make a choice, do you expect the students who are at the DF component that corresponds to the mini-lesson (in this example RS and R) to be working on that comprehension strategy? How does that work for with word work? Maybe there is a closed sort that corresponds with the word work lesson, but you haven't taught that lesson yet and students are working at that station. Do they just work on that closed sort the next day? **I had the kids show their thinking if they were reading with a partner, listening to reading, or reading to self. This meant they had to put a sticky note with their thinking on a bulletin board. Sometimes I would direct them. If we had been working on making connections, I would say during the transition time When you show me your thinking, I want you to make a connection. Then the last 2-3 minutes of Daily Five time I would say Show me your thinking. Kids would take their favorite sticky from their book and put it on the bulletin board. As everyone was getting ready to change classes, I would read a couple out loud. Sometimes, I let them just think freely with no guidance.** **As far as word work goes, I had 2 things they did each week. One was a Making Words lesson that I recorded myself teaching. It's kind of hard to explain so here's my website that you can check them out on. http://eastscs.sharpschool.com/cms/One.aspx?portalId=286211pageId=2520070 Fourth graders each have their own laptop so this was easy in my room but this may be difficult if there is a limited number of computers in the room. The other activity they did was a word stem activity. I would have a stem (like urb). They had to add a word with that stem on a poster board, write a sentence on a sentence strip using their word and put it in a pocket chart, and then do a short activity using the stem in their word work journal.** 3. How long do you keep the word work materials available before changing them? A week? **I kept the word work materials available for a week usually. However, if it was a short week or things were a bit busy, I might keep the same materials available for 2 weeks and if a student had already done it, they just wouldn't do word work the second week.** 4. After reading the chapter on choice, I realized that the teachers (I must have missed it somewhere earlier in the book) are assigning which component the students will be working on. How have you done this? **I assigned students days to do word work. All others were free choice. I have a list of students and I call out one child at a time. They tell me what they want to do and I write the abbreviation down beside their name. If a student chose something that I did not want him/her to do, I would ask them to see me before they got started. I would then talk them into changing their mind. I made sure the kids felt it was free choice (even when I made the choice).** 5. I didn't see any trouble shooting in the Listen to Reading about the scenario when half of the class wants to RS or LR. How do you make sure that each child does all of the components? I noticed there were only 4 listening spots. How do you make sure everyone gets their turn? **In fourth grade, I actually didn't care if they did the listen to reading or partner reading each week. My only requirements were Read to Self and Word Work at least once a week. As far as listening to reading, my school has a subscription to Dell Sylvan publishing that has e-books online. So, that was their listening to reading option and since each student has their own laptop, that worked out well.** I appreciate all your help. It seems
Re: [MOSAIC] setting a purpose for reading
I would love a copy of this - Thanks so much for the offer!! Cathy Pam Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/17/06 10:42 PM Pat, Several years ago when I taught 6th - 8th Title I reading, I used a short passage to illustrate the different purposes and interpretations we have for reading. It was a passage about two youngsters who skip school and go to one boy's house. It describes the house vividly. (It would also be good for visualization for older grades.) In the first read, the student underlined what he/she thought was important (with no prelude by the teacher). In the second read, the student highlighted in pink what would be important if he/she was a burglar. In the third read, the student highlighted in yellow what he/she thought was important if they were a prospective home buyer. My students loved it because it really brought home the different perspectives each of us brings to the table that sets our purpose for reading. If you are interested, reply and I will fax it to you or I can e-mail it if you prefer. Cynthia Hawkins Holly Pond Elementary/1st Holly Pond, Alabama ___ 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.
