Re: [MOSAIC] picture books and comprehension strategies

2009-11-17 Thread Lois Adams
There are great lists in the Keene and Zimmerman book, 7 Keys to comprehension, as well as in Mosaic of Thought,, and Harvey and Goudvais's book Strategies That work. We used these to select the books that we have in our baskets for teacher use as mentor texts with our work here at the school on

Re: [MOSAIC] Theme/author's message

2009-11-17 Thread Patricia Kimathi
Is this a certain lesson?? Will you share I like the idea of calling it PIE makes it easy to remember PatK On Nov 16, 2009, at 10:01 AM, mimos...@comcast.net wrote: I just did the Author's Purpose lesson today, ___ Mosaic mailing list

Re: [MOSAIC] Theme/author's message

2009-11-17 Thread EDWARD JACKSON
I am thinking that lesson learned here is that no matter what we do instructionally, it must begin with joy. In terms of what happens in the name of reading instruction, teaching children strategies to apply to invigorating and interesting texts is the very least of current evils. Lori

Re: [MOSAIC] Students who need to try

2009-11-17 Thread Susan Joyce
I also work in a middle school with below grade level readers and students with disabilities. Sometimes when my students are reluctant to do the work I will go over and do one or two of the items with them, give them some positive feedback and then say, You keep working, I will check back with

Re: [MOSAIC] picture books and comprehension strategies

2009-11-17 Thread Kimberly Mitchell
You're right, those books are an excellent resource as is Debbie Miller's book, Reading with Meaning. I purchased Interactive Read Alouds, Linking Standards, Fluency, and Comprehension for grades 2/3 and 4/5 by Linda Hoyt. It is published by Heinemann. There are comprehension, vocabulary,

Re: [MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 39, Issue 19

2009-11-17 Thread Wendy Lockie
Here is a list. Hope it helps http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/PictureBookListforModelingStrategyInstructionfromKerry.pdf Also this is another site you can browse through http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/strategies.html Wendy mosaic@literacyworkshop.org writes: I am looking for a list of