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Philomena- I see that some people are suggesting the Fountas/Pinnel
benchmark system for you. If I understood your questions, you are
looking for a reading curriculum to use with different content areas
for middle school interventions. The Fountas and Pinnel is an
assessment tool, not a read
Sorry, I've been away for a few days so you may have got your answers
already. Grand Conversation is appropriate for lower levels but would needs
some adapting. There is great information for starting up Lit. Circles. I
think lit circles could be appropriate with fluent 1st and 2nd graders but
the
Tony Stead has many ideas for organizing books. His new book Good Choice is
great. Beth Newingham's site has excellent basket labels.
Jeanne
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:14:52 -0700
> From: mrs_goo...@yahoo.com
> To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Organizing Books
>
> Hi
Hi Laurie,
It depends on what grade, (I think 3rd could do this) but I tried assigning
equal groups to a genre. (Of course, you have to teach them about genre first.)
Then I lined the front of the room with boxes labeled on the front with the
genre. Whenever I had 5-10 minutes we sorted books. I
