[MOSAIC] book talks

2007-06-08 Thread ginger/rob
I will be announcing the details for our book talk on the second edition of Mosaic of Thought in a few days. Would any of you be interested in facilitating a book talk here on the second edition of Strategies That Work? I'm looking at a start date for the Strategies book talk sometime mid/late

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2007-06-08 Thread jkyingling
It's similar to DIBELS but it's not DIBELS. It's called AIMSweb. The website is www.aimsweb.com. It might help you. Jenni - Original Message - > At our school we are revamping our ELA assessments. I am looking for ideas that would be good for K-4 writing and K-2 reading that do not incl

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2007-06-08 Thread Amy and Christine Rebera
At our school we are revamping our ELA assessments. I am looking for ideas that would be good for K-4 writing and K-2 reading that do not include Dibbels. Does anyone have suggestions that would be good for some of our staff members that feel that we need to have "hard data"? Thanks- Christin

Re: [MOSAIC] read alouds

2007-06-08 Thread gina nunley
For fellow middle school teachers my kids LOVE when I read aloud Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen (perfect point of view story that is especially good for getting middle schoolers to imagine what the "other kid" feels like) The Library Card by Gary Paulsen (I use it before a research unit) I