Thanks from the bottom of my heart for all the input
on Read Alouds.
I will let you know how the sessions turn out and feed
back!
Along the lines of this thread--I had a disagreement
with my husband when I mentioned that I thought
singing was a form of reading aloud. This though cam
to me
There use to be a company who trained parents and teachers in this
method. They had materials parents could watch videos, and books they
could borrow. They also had parent and teacher workshops to teach the
way to do read-a-loud. Does anyone remember the name of it. I want to
do something
Part 1
Some time back, I said I would post the federal research supporting SSR
from my new book Smart Answers to Tough Questions. I got waylaid but
here it is finally. I’m going to do this in 2 posts. The first will
address what the National Reading Panel actually did with SSR and what
you
In a message dated 6/24/2007 1:51:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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among struggling readers as a result of 3 months of an intervention program
that focused on students learning to sing.
I find this fascinating.
Could you tell us a little more?
I had a low IQ (
Thank you, Tim. I am saving your email as a bit of supportive evidence as I
used song lyrics always, along with poetry, as shared reading and saw
consistent improvements in fluency.
Lori
On 6/24/07 11:47 AM, RASINSKI, TIMOTHY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As long as the singer has the written
Essentially it is form of repeated readings -- students sing/read song lyrics
repeatedly until they can read/sing the text/lyric fluently. As students
practice a text, high frequency words, word family words, and high interest
vocabulary words are pulled from the text, put on a word wall and
This is what we used to do with tiny people back before the days of scripted
programs. But then it was big books, poetry, and songs. It was powerful
teaching then, and it is now. Both for English speakers, special ed, and
English learners. It is so good to see.
Kim
On 6/24/07, [EMAIL
Ginger
Tim (and I hope he'll excuse me, for jumping in here) can probably tell you
more about this...but I heard him advise teachers to have the kids write new
lyrics for known tunes! I have gone on to do so and the kids LOVE it. You can
give the kids examples of what to do by using the
I agree that the kids memorizing the words is a problem with songs, poetry, and
predictable books.I find I need to remind children to keep their eyes on
the words.Also, pulling words from the text out of context and on a word
wall draws their attention to the words. And, finding
I am a kindergarten/first grade looping teacher. We use music all throughout
our day to help kids learn concepts and sight word recognition. We keep our
songs in a notebook with all the poems we love. Students are allowed to read
them in reader's workshop. Although it may seem at times
Yes, we used to do this in pre-K. When children knew a song we would change a
word or two or a phrase and let the children notice. Of course, they would
scold us for singing it wrong. In my class I have given tickets to students
who find my mistakes when I'm writing something on the board. What
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