Janelle, As far as lessons on monitoring meaning I have a simple thing I do.
We will read one page of a challenging text whole class or small group and I
asked them to pay attention as they read and notice
Does it click or does it clunk?
Use your strategies to fix it up.
then I excitedly
Oh, the article I sent came from this website.
www.tsg.suny.edu/downloadfiles/vcresources/Science_and_Young_Children.doc
Debbie
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This makes sense developmentally for sure...as an early childhood teacher I
do use a lot of movement and hands on learning. I wonder why phonics
instruction as a method of teaching reading works for many kids at that age
when it is
a very analytic way of teaching reading...phonics is n
I have not read much on learning styles lately, but as far as early childhood
teaching goes, the kinesthetic approach seems to be necessary for nearly
everyone. Think about going from concrete to abstract, and it makes perfect
sense. We all need to do it first, then we can possibly internalize i
I must say, I have had the BEST experience today with practicing the
Daily 5. I have been practicing Read to Self for weeks so that we
had it down before moving on. This week we began Partner Reading.
Today, during Geck-O-Ing Work (we are the gecko's!) my kids that
finished had broken of
The basic idea is that when you use a book to do a picture walk with your
kids, there are some limitations imposed by the medium (bound pages):
1. Nobody can see more than two pages at a time.
2. Your students can't look back without asking you to stop readingand
then you have to page back an
textmapping with "Good night Gorilla" was mentioned and textmapping in general.
i'm teaching kindergarten this year for the first time in a while and would
love the details about this.
thanks,
susan
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Thanks, Heather! This was great advice!
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Sent: Thu 9/27/2007 6:56 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
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Melissa,
I always devoted the first 3 weeks of
On Sep 28, 2007, at 6:25 AM, ljackson wrote:
> I guess that what I am saying is, slow teaching making a
> difference.
Wow.
What a concept.
:-)
Renee
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who
are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." ~ Mark Twain
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I modeled for at least one week before beginning to chart. Then I would
initiate modeling with a text and invite the students to join me in my
thinking. At the same time, I introduced the strategy into guided reading
and strategic reading groups with varying degrees of independence depending
on t
I just returned from maternity leave. My sub taught from the basal. I have
started reading workshop and I am going over tools we use and how to choose
books on our level. However, I am finding that many of my students do not
understand that how to record their thinking or realize what it mean
Well, I probably shouldn't have mentioned it since I don't even remember where
I read it. It's probably been 8 or so years ago, and I think it was possibly
in a Kappan article, although I'm very fuzzy. I think she was including the
work of Kenneth and Rita Dunn as well as her own when she wrot
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