Thank you Martha these ideas are very helpful.
PatK
On May 29, 2009, at 5:33 PM, re...@aol.com wrote:
Pat- the organizers I use are pretty standard - I like Vicki
Benson's triange/square/circle for retelling, basic story maps,
somebody-wanted-but-so-then, semantic feature maps, nothing
I need help from the knowledgeable members of this listserv. I need suggestions
for great reading books, resources, software, equipment and/or professional
development for an elementary school. I just found out that we are receiving
some new grant money which needs to be spent quickly. Any
I thought some of you might like to join Jim Burke's English Companion site
(ning, whatever that is). They are starting a discussion of Kelly
Gallagher's book which purports that schools are killing reading. Kelly was
a leader in the South Basin Writing Project I attended a few years back. He
I used iMovie to make the videos. I'm sure you could use a program on a
PC, I'm just not familiar with those. As far as the lesson itself, I used
a Four Block book called Making Big Words Grade 4. It was a book full of
worksheets a student would do independently that I just read off to turn
