Struggling readers, yes, a running record is probably necessary. But a
conference, a book discussion and a sharing of ideas, one on one, student to
teacher, certainly makes a student feel valued. It does not HAVE TO include
reading aloud unless it is deemed necessary for assessment or to ci
I am not advocating meeting with one or a small group of readers for
assessment. I mean that the TYPE of assessment would differ from student to
student. Not all students require a running record in middle school. All
students
should have conferences/assessments with their teachers.
Le
OK. Thanks for clarifying that. I'm assuming that the idea of renaissance
learners is in her new book. I'm looking forward to this discussion.
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
I don't see it as a negative either...just important to know!
My gifted 2nd grader ( who will not be 8 until this summer) wrote a speech. It
was about the importance of school. It was very rudimentary and not well
developed. So I decided to "teach her" how to write a speech. First, she
listened to Severin Suzuki, who, when she was 13, addressed the UN rega
Pat,
I am familiar with a Lindamood Bell program, Visualizing and Verbalizing.
Carol
Carol A. Mauer
BCSC Literacy Coach
Lincoln Elementary School
376-4447
"Why do teachers ask us questions when they already know the answers?"
An intelligent high school dropout
>>> Patricia Kimathi
>Hi Shannon, I don't know that I have the best thing out there but our tech
>facilitators created an activity for us based on a civil rights study aimed at
>teaching web site evaluation. They gave us a series of questions and 5 civil
>rights sites to go to. After scoring each of the sites t
It's by the same people who publish Lindamood. Google Lindamood and you
will fin the info.
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