Rosie,
We also have Houghton Mifflin for our basal, but I use tons of other
resources. Do you have the newest series that has the leveled readers? Ours
does so it has the on-level, below-level, above-level readers and then the
basal. I also use centers, but generally for 30 min. a day. My
What are the titles?
Pat K
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and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest
battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
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On Feb 4, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Eryn 2nd grade
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Your first grade colleague has an interesting dilemma to explore and one I
wish more graduate students would spend time studying. I think we have
confused standards, curriculum, learning tools and instructional
strategies in many states and districts. I suspect this teacher's
professor is urging
Cheryl,
I am appalled at the thought that your reading/literacy coach actually tells
you that you may not use literature and novels. I teach fifth graders that
are all reading far below grade level and if the only thing I used was the
basal, my kids would NEVER want to read. This year I took
Recently our new middle school schedule was unveiled for next year and it is
cutting ELA time in the whole school but especially in our 6th grade.
Currently our 6th graders have two periods of ELA so that we can adequately
cover
both reading and writing. Next year we will have one period a
Here is the link to the site for centers. A lot of them say Take it
to Your Seat. If you have a local teacher store you can probably
browse some there. Also, I was able to get one for free using my Scholastic
book order points! The exact titles are at school and I am at home.
Since I
Hi all,
One of the leaders at our district asked me if I am aware of a school or
district where they are using comprehension strategies throughout the school
and/or district. She would like to observe or send some of us to go and observe
it in a schoolwide setting. Anyone aware of a school
There is a phonics resource book called Phonics Fun and it has a song for
each phonics rule... myabe Frank Schaffer or some such author.
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While we are on the subject of songs for instruction, I have a CD I bought that
has reading strategy songs on it. They also make one for writing strategies. I
think it would be great for primary students. (I really like them, but my
fourth grade students think they are babyish though, because
Dear Ellin,
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my question. As a Title
I teacher, former Reading Recovery teacher, and former literacy coordinator I
have seen many new teachers confused by college professors, administrators
and so called veteran teachers. I am baffled by
If you look on our TEACHING TOOLS page at
www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm
in the Staff Development category you will find a couple files with study
guide questions for MOT.
Ginger
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Oops! Kerry was looking for study guides for RWM. We do have some
questions for RWM on the TOOLS page as well.
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I am currently working in a kindergarten classroom and this has been a
struggle for me too. One thing I do is: when we do our picture walk to help
us make predictions we talk about questions we may have before we read, as
students share there questions I write them on our class reading log. As
I called Heineman yesterday, and they told me there are no plans for
publishing a primary Comprehension Tool Kit.
Unfortunately, Heinemann is not using local reps now, so my rep has no
knowledge about this.
Can anyone tell me whether or not the toolkit is in the plans for primary?
I was really
The two things that my current class seems to like to write or talk about is
their questions and their conenctions they have made to the text they have
read. Everytime I read to the class I try to come up with questions and
write them on our class reading log and connections I have made to the
I also contacted Heinemann in December and was also told there was no
publishing of a primary comprehension toolkit.
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Hi all~ I'm new to the board. I'm a Literacy student at Syracuse University
and in reading these posts, some things that we've learned/practiced came to
mind. I haven't done these in the classroom yet, but many in
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Kerry,
We used the Strategies That Work book last semester; my professors are all
well-versed in Literacy and we found that by breaking down each chapter and
having the strategies modeled individually worked best to
I am forwarding this from Sarah
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I, too, am in a program where we focus on teaching strategies. What I've
found is that these methods ARE practices, since a good literacy specialist
should be modeling and scaffolding for such practices as Read/Think aloud,
pair share,
Well said and thank you for your input and feedback.
Sometimes I feel all alone in my thoughts and understandings and then I
get to hear thoughts/understandings/beliefs of others that let me know
that I am not alone...
Cyd
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Terry: the majority of the teachers in my school teacher the comprehension
strategies and metacognitive thinking, altho' there may be a few that don't. I
teach in northeast Florida in Duval Co. We also are a district that teaches
utilizing Performance Standards rather than the SSS.
Deb
If I remember correctly it is due to come out in 2008.
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I have been working with my third grade teachers and their students on
determining theme when reading stories. The reason we picked this concept was
because our sample tests in preparing for state testing showed that the kids
had very little understanding of this. Also, I've found that this is
The title is The Big Book of Phonics Fun by Carson DeLosa publications
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Has anyone checked out the new Stenhouse book, Power Reading? It is for K-3 and
I have started making grade-level book bins for the strategy work involved.
They use five startegies, which I think is a goodk-2 start and then go into the
Toolkit. Has anyone used this? I bought a bunch if the
I stumbled across Power Reading and love it. It has graphic organizers with
depth for upper grades. We started a school reading campaign similar to what
this book advocates accenting 1 strategy a month involving k-5. We began
purchasing 1 picture book each month and giving it to each teacher
Hi all~ I'm new to the board. I'm a Literacy student at Syracuse University
and in reading these posts, some things that we've learned/practiced came to
mind. I haven't done these in the classroom yet, but many in my program have
and found they are wonderful tools. One thing we love is
Who is the author of this book--and is the title reading power or power
reading? Thanks, Laura C
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Is it Power Reading or Reading Power? I can;t find Power reading--but I
found the other-
Bagwell, Debbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stumbled across Power Reading
and love it. It has graphic organizers with depth for upper grades. We started
a school reading campaign similar to what this book
Thank you!! (o: I thought so!! The last 2 posts said Power Reading and I kept
finding books on speed reading...LOL That is the LAST thing they need!!
Thanks
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It is Reading Power
Julie
On Feb 4, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Jennifer Benbrook wrote:
Is it
Pat,
There's also a buzz in the air here in my Florida district that VERY SOON
students will have only LA in middle school. Teaching reading will be a
'thing of the past,' much like it is in high school. Yes, high schoolers
read literature---but they aren't taught reading. They're supposed to
I just got the book myself, and I do really like it. It gives great ideas for
how to present each strategy.
Karen
1st/MI
Jennifer Benbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you!! (o: I thought so!! The last 2 posts said Power Reading and I kept
finding books on speed reading...LOL That
Yes, Reading Power is the book I was talking about. Sorry about the
confusion...my copy is at school.
Debbie
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Hi,
Reading Power is a wonderful book. It was written by a teacher in the
Vancouver, British Columbia school district and it really helps to make
the strategies more concrete for the kids. Adrienne Greer came to speak
at our Primary Teachers meeting a few months ago, and she's coming back
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