That was my hopeful suspicion. Stead knows his stuff.
On 2/22/08 10:21 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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> MONDO is led by a talented educator (primary)who started his own company.
> Consultants who worked with MONDO, like Tony Stead, always maintained
> connections to classroo
Mary,
I don't know if anyone ever e-mailed you back about the Pocket Book, (2/13/08)
but I just pulled mine out to use:
It was published by The Pocket Book Press, PO Box 2154, Dublin, CA 94568
Written by David Cooper and Lynn Taylor
I still try to fit some fun activities in with everything
I hadn't heard back from anyone, so thanks!!! My team still tries to fit in
some fun in 1st grade. Pretty sad, huh? 10 years ago, even 5 years ago,
first grade wasn't like junior college.
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Good morning everyone!
I am three chapters in to Ellin Keene's new book "To Understand" and have
realized that this is one very important book for all of us on the list. It
really deserves a forum for discussion! Over the weekend, Keith will help me
set
up a new, temporary listserv for us to
I teach 2nd grade. How are you incorporating it?
> We use Open Court and I've been trying to incorporate it with strategy
> instruction but what grade do you teach??
>
> Tracy
>
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:58:13 -0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> My administrator decided in th
We have Open Court and and a few of our teachers are experimenting with a
literature circle approach. We are in the same boat you are - a mandated series
that the district spent a lot of money on, but that doesn't meet the
differentiated needs of all students. However, these are 4th and 5th gra
I use a literature circle format in my fifth grade in place of a basal. I
have been permitted to forgo my basal for the last five years and just use
literature. I am incredibly thankful for that, but am aware that it could
change in a heartbeat. My students self-select books and form groups bas
We use the Houghton Mifflin basal but I use a reader's workshop approach in my
second grade classroom teaching the comprehension strategies you mention.
(Reading With Meaning and Mosaic of Thought changed my teaching life!) I don't
use the basal stories in the order they are presented. I try t
We don't use Basel readers. However, I would love to hear if anyone
has any blackline masters for making connections during reading and
assessment masters that they find good.
Thanks, Laura
On 23-Feb-08, at 6:08 PM, Wendy Jensen wrote:
> We use the Houghton Mifflin basal but I use a reader's
I found this poem today. Seems like it could be useful when teaching
connections, visualizing, and metacognition to older students.
THE VOICE YOU HEAR WHEN YOU READ SILENTLY
is not silent, it is a speaking-
out-loud voice in your head; it is *spoken*,
a voice is *saying* it
as you read. It's
I have been told that I should be using the basal, as well. I haven't
been using it at all up to this point. I have been thinking about how to
incorporate it into the Daily 5. I think I am going to have the students
listen to the CDs that come with the basal while they read the along.
This will
The site is back up. For those of you who are scratching your heads, you
need not read further.
Over the last 8 days I received a lot of email about the site being down --
people checking in, offering encouragement, even a few offers of server
space. Very kind. I was pleasantly stunned by t
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