[MOSAIC] Wayne State University Student

2007-07-24 Thread Steve Alan Macfarland
How do we know strategies that work for adults work for children? Original message Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:42:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Lisa Szyska [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Round Robin Reading To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group

[MOSAIC] I wonder

2007-07-24 Thread Dave Middlebrook
Can anyone tell me the original source for the use of I wonder? Thanks, 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 [EMAIL

Re: [MOSAIC] literacy garden

2007-07-24 Thread Kukonis
Maxine, I tried this with first graders and we did plant a garden outside as well. Using the actual tools helped them to make the connections big time. In the spring we used the garden daily to do our read alouds and were blessed with the blooms we had planted in the fall. Reading was the

Re: [MOSAIC] What Really Matters - Joy

2007-07-24 Thread Joy
I do follow MOT and Lucy Calkins. I do use trade books to teach strategies. I cannot purchase any programs, and I'm looking for how to do the interventions, and how to document them. Are the assessments online, or are they part of the program? Debbie Goodis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [MOSAIC] Round Robin Reading

2007-07-24 Thread Joy
I think the suggestions about training will help. One of our staff development days is going to be about reading strategies, so maybe that will help. I don't think she knows anything different, and doesn't understand the full implications. I don't think she is being insubordinate at all,

Re: [MOSAIC] Wayne State University Student

2007-07-24 Thread Joy
Research. Of course, as Richard Allington points out, research in education is imperfect because of the nature of the beast. First of all, many of the publishers cite research that they did themselves, so it can be biased. Some research in education is done over short periods, so the

Re: [MOSAIC] cloze activity

2007-07-24 Thread kimberlee hannan
Ok..I was thinking chickens... Kim On 7/24/07, ljackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so why I am thinking this going to turn out to be about chimpanzees??? Lori On 7/24/07 3:40 PM, ginger/rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My husband attended a workshop today where this cloze paragraph was

Re: [MOSAIC] cloze activity

2007-07-24 Thread Creecher12
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[MOSAIC] cloze answers

2007-07-24 Thread ginger/rob
You guys are so smart! I totally fell for it when he handed it to me. I read it from my schema as a parent obviously Which I guess is the point. You should have seen me, though. I was so convinced that I could whip off the correct words and yet when I got to the last two sentences my