I love Despereaux! I've even read it to my tough guy 8th graders, who
enjoyed it as well.
Books my kids enjoyed as a read aloud (I teach 6-8)
Dave at Night
Totally Joe
Bunnicula Meets Edgar Alan Crow (my 6th graders are big fans of the
Bunnicula series)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Giver
Thunder Cave by Roland Smith is a favorite with my fourth graders.
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Some good books were mentioned but my favorite:
Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
I read it to fourth and fifth but it can be used from K to "who knows".
Or Because of Winn Dixie
Or Edward Tulane
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The titles are starting to flood...
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and the drop is not something to be alarmed about.
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Although we are just adopting this for use next fall, our pilot showed
exactly the same trend. I think it measures comprehension more accurately
and the drop is not something to be alarmed about.
On 6/6/07 6:01 PM, "Kate Lino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you all so much for your posts on
Totally agree there are many stategies, deeper thinking, themes that go
along with level N.
I believe there are very few 1st grader who are truly a level N reader. We
struggle with that at my school.
Why continue testing so high? Teach high in guided and be sure that
independently they are com
Thank you everyone, for all the read aloud ideas for my fifth grade students.
I look forward to reading them over the summer.
We are currently reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Ruby Holler. My kids
loved Seedfolks (me, too!)
It has been a year of adjustment, especially dealing with "switc
Thank you all so much for your posts on the DRA "ceilings" ... it has been very
insightful for me. I have a question for you. Have any of you seen a variance
in your students' levels from the DRA kit to the DRA2 kit? We used the old kit
for the first semester and got trained on the new kit after
Our district put end of the year ceilings on DRA that were set low (16
grade 1, 28 grade 2) in an effort to get teachers to stop trying to up the
levels and look deeply at comprehension and fluency. This year, we raised
the levels they can assess a child up to, but they need to first try the
corres
In our District 28 is the end of second grade. 18 is the end for first
grade.
Kay in AZ
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In our district the first grade DRA ceiling is 24 for the beginning of the
year and 28 at the end of the year.
Stephenie
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We are looking at establishing those ceilings k-5 for the coming year, but
are still very early in the discussions.
Lori
On 6/6/07 2:46 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to know if any one teaching first puts a ceiling on DRA
> testing. That is to stop testin
I would like to know if any one teaching first puts a ceiling on DRA
testing. That is to stop testing after certain level. All of our team
feel
that after level n there are so many more conventions, deeper strategies, and
reflections that could be made even when kids pass this level.
Author Jackie Hopkins has just published a book this spring with Upstart.
The title is "Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians"
A take-off on the original, Goldisocks is looking for just the right book. It
gives an acrostic for A Just Right Book
A uthor J acket U seful, etc.
Goldie Socks also
>In my school district, we like for our kindergarten students to be at a DRA 4.
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> Sorry to all. I messed up before when I said a good teen book recommended in
> a teacher article was called Money. It is called Money Hungry and it is by
> Sharon FLake. Next time I will go find the book rather than thinking I
> remember:)
I know this book. It is good. It is about a girl
I want to thank you for all for your input. I am new to this district, and
they are making the DRA level 6 as a benchmark for being on grade level at the
end of kindergarten. It was level 2 where I was before. I am just a little
frustrated because most of my children are on level 3 and 4. I
In years of working with this assessment, I can say there was a time when
our kinders were not assessed with DRA until May of their first year. Since
those early levels are far more about book handling skills and concepts of
print, many --including myself--felt this was a mistake. The testing wa
By ceiling, do you mean that you do not test beyond this level with kinders?
Lori
On 6/5/07 9:03 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I should also add that for kindergarten, below 2 is considered "substantially
> deficient" (intervention needed) and 14 is the ceiling.
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Look at Eve Bunting and Patricia Palocco. I think that, in truth, you can
use many of the same books used with younger kids if you approach the
discussion differently. I was thinking of The Cats of Krazinsky Square,
which I used with my first and second grade students. I have used that same
book
Page,
Our district and state say level 2 by January and level 3 by May. I also
teach K and have found that about half my class is at goal, several are
still at level 2 and a couple in the A, 1 range. I think it's hard because
some children are not developmentally ready to learn to read yet and othe
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