Another important advantage it offers to the disadvantaged--a guarantee of two
meals a day. Take nothing for granted.
Lori Jackson
District Literacy Coach and Mentor
Todd County School District
Box 87
Mission SD 5755
- Original message -
From: Vickie Julka
To: mosaic@literacyworks
Nancy,
My district switched to all day kindergarten 10+ years ago and it has been
wonderful. We are able to slow the pace and make time for meaningful learning
experiences.
One of my fondest memories is working with kindergarten comprehension study
after reading the first edition of Mosaic o
Hi,
Thank you for this information. I'm going to pass it on to the K teacher at my
school who wants to make her literacy practice more relevant to her students.
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
The best and most beautiful things in the world ca
Nancy
All day K is mandatory now in Maryland. What it did for us was give us the
time to teach comprehension strategies through read alouds each and every day.
I was sold on the value of it when I walked into an all day K classroom our
first year (about three years ago) and having a student
I started out the year with 32 in all day K, my first year from switching
from AM-PM.
I have had 28 since some movement of children in September. My wonderful
district gave me a terrific additional teacher to help in the morning and
switched all my prep to the PM. The only problem I am having
So do we, and I think it makes a tremendous difference. With the new CA
budget, our district is thinking of ending class size reduction in K and
3rd. Our K teachers are divided about doing all day kinder with 30
students. They have to sign a waiver to have all day kinder and all
teachers must ag
Jan
No...she isn't ELL. She was also tested for a possible language disability
by the speech pathologist and there was a 'weakness' but no disability as far
as receptive and expressive language.
Response starters are a good idea...and they help some, but sometimes she
will give a "when" ans
Okay. Beating a dead horse. I want to thank the person who just wrote
in defending the DI conversation. I don't even use DI but I understand
the need to voice your opinion. I just joined the listserv and I LOVE
IT. I'm glad you gave the reason for the listserv and from now on I
will keep my
I think it's inescapable that the possibilities of deep thinking
(comprehension) require wait time and reflection, and that, indeed is a
practice that is mutually exclusive to DI programs.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Ellin Keene wrote:
> A quick response to Elisa and Jennifer's posts about
A quick response to Elisa and Jennifer's posts about the purpose of the list
serv. I certainly agree with the original, stated purposes (there's a big
surprise, eh?) for the list serv, but with respect to the scripted programs
discussion, I do think that the discussion is related to strategy
instr
Jennifer, I have a couple of quick questions...
Is the student ELL? If so, what level? Maybe the questions are out of her
English Language Development "zone". If worded differently, she may be able
to answer them?
Also, what reading level is she?
Maybe she doesn't know how to put her thoughts i
In a message dated 2/21/2009 9:37:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
elwaingor...@cbe.ab.ca writes:
What were the major flaws in the Project Follow Through research?
Elisa,
As you probably know, research with children is "messy." The outstanding
mess I see with DI research is something I
No More Letter of the Week is a book that has been around for a while. I had
actually recommended it to a principal, without having seen it, when she was
looking to move teachers from "A Week" teaching . However, it gathered dust up
until this past year when a group of our kindergarten teacher
Yes
Lori Jackson
District Literacy Coach and Mentor
Todd County School District
Box 87
Mission SD 5755
- Original message -
From: Felicia Barra
To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group'
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Building c
Lori,
Just curious, do you have full day kindergarten?
-Original Message-
From: mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org
[mailto:mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Ljackson
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 9:33 AM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Subje
Felicia,
I think you've already started on a path to teaching reading differently. I
bet you are already doing some of the things you've read about on this list and
that you got from your Ellin Keene/Debbie Miller session. It's hard not to
since it all makes so much sense, no pun intended. Ev
OK, Lori. Now, please do tell us more about No More Letter of the Week.
Thanks,
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt within the heart.
—Helen Keller
Thank you, Nancy for this summary. Sounds like the Reading First debacle. I'm
not surprised but it's encouraging to hear it from someone who actually did the
reading and had to report on it. What were the major flaws in the Project
Follow Through research?
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spani
We have seen some amazing results this year in kindergarten classrooms using No
More Letter of The Week as a means of introducing and building letter-sound
associations in combination with a guided writing approach that emphasizes
shared composition and teacher modeling of invented spelling (tha
In a message dated 2/20/2009 7:44:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
elwaingor...@cbe.ab.ca writes:
what does the independent research say about Direct Instruction programs
Elisa,
I did some research on this exact question in my dissertation. I could write
about it for hours (actually I did
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