Congratulations. It's so hard to take that leap! So glad things
worked out well for you.
Carol
On Jul 2, 2008, at 8:31 PM, chris and teresa casart wrote:
> A little bit more...
>
> - 4th grade
> - 21 students
> - one visually impaired student, which made me nervous for about 3
> seconds,
> un
I agree that anything by Kylene Beers is excellent. I also like
Deeper Reading: Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12 by Kelly
Gallagher. And, whenever I read Jeff Wilhelm, I become energized.
Hope this helps,
Linda
On Jul 3, 2008, at 8:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I will be teaching
Congrats...sounds like a dream job! Keep us posted next year, would love how to
hear how they got to that point!
Terry
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From: chris and teresa casart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Sent: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 9:31 pm
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Yup. When Kids Can't Read by Kylene Beers
http://www.amazon.com/When-Kids-Cant-Read-Teachers/dp/0867095199/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215109135&sr=8-1
or anything else by Beers -- and anything by Cris Tovani, especially
http://www.amazon.com/Read-but-Dont-Get-Comprehension/dp/157110
Pat,
I teach 6th grade reading and I used The Comprehension Toolkit this past
school year. I went to my school yesterday to look at our state reading test
results and out of 96 students who took the test I had 98% who scored
proficient (76 scored a 4 and 18 scored a 3) on our state reading test. I
You may want to look at the book I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension
Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani. Here's a link to it at
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Read-but-Dont-Get-Comprehension/dp/157110089X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215094226&sr=8-1
Paula
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Pat,
Tim Rasinski has some great material on increasing fluency/comprehension. I
heard him speak at the Lakota Reading and Writing Institute (in Ohio) last
month and was quite impressed. He spoke about "voice makes meaning" and
teaching even older kids prosody. He has written several book
The title of the Katie Wood Ray book is Already Ready.
Karen
1st/MI
--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Waingort Jimenez, Elisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Waingort Jimenez, Elisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] kindergarten
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
Date: Wed
Good question! Made me laugh. This is the most productive time of the day for
me, even in summer. Most of my family is still sleeping and I can get reading,
writing, and thinking done without interruptions or having to rush off to work.
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie
I will be teaching greds 6 and 8 AIS next year. AIS is a response to
intervention program for kids who have scored a low 2 on our state's assessment
the
previous year. I've taught these same courses this year and I have found the
kids have very poor vocabulary, fluency issues and their compre
Congratulations! All of that positive energy really worked. Enjoy your
weekend!
--- On Wed, 7/2/08, chris and teresa casart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: chris and teresa casart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [MOSAIC] I got a job!
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
Why on earth are we all up at 5:30 on a July morning??? The ultimate question.
:-)
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Sounds wonderful. Double congrats.
Lori
On 7/2/08 7:31 PM, "chris and teresa casart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A little bit more...
>
> - 4th grade
> - 21 students
> - one visually impaired student, which made me nervous for about 3 seconds,
> until I remembered that reading strategies work
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