Add to these comments the evidence of graft by these folk in the Reading First
materials corruption story.
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From: Waingort Jimenez, Elisa elwaingor...@cbe.ab.ca
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 09:18:04
To: Mosaic: A Reading
Dave,
Where I teach we don't have social studies or science textbooks for
2nd graders. I used a textbook that I purchased and copied it. My
second graders loved understanding how a non-fiction textbook would
look and how to approach it. I explained that is how upper grade
students and
Jeanne,
Good teachers have a philosophy that guides their teaching so that, as you said
somewhere else in your post, no program will distract them from giving their
kids appropriate instruction. This is where those textbooks always go wrong.
They assume that teachers don't know what they're
Hi Jennifer,
Yes, compromise seems to be the word of the day. If only the feds would
discover that word and compromise with teachers not business executives...
Thanks for explaining about the lengthy word work time. It sounds like there
are ways to get around it. Given what I know about D5
Elisa,
Thanks for the site. It was really helpful.
Jeanne
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Elisa
I am lucky...I have a principal who is a former reading specialist and
Instructional Facilitator who is also extremely knowledgeable in literacy.
While we have a reading series...it is a tool not the curriculum. If I can
justify what I am doing is best for kids, I have great
Hello Everyone,
I am Student Teaching this winter and my previous cooperating teacher used
DRTA, and I really like the benefits of it but is there another way to
encourage questioning, inferring, and predicting other than using a DRTA chart
while reading? My experience with students is that
Jennifer,
Your post reminds me how critical it is to have a principal who is an
instructional leader - knows curriculum and what it's like to be in the
classroom, and who hasn't forgotten either one.
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
The best
If so, what do you do with the reading logs and/or strategy sheets at the
end of the week? She discussing every minute detail in her book, except
that, I think! Thanks!
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My name is Jill S I am a student at Wayne State University. I am
student teaching in 1st grade this fall. What would be a good
comprehension strategy to teach towards the beginning of the year?
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