Hi Martha,
Can you share the retelling graphic organizer you used? I wonder if that will
offer some clues as to why it didn't work for the other child and what to do
next?
Thanks,
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual Teacher
Spanish Learning Leader
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary,
Brilliant!
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Christine Koch ck...@scarborough.k12.me.us
wrote:
Hi Martha
I've had a different sort of experience that might help. After years of
trying to model and scaffold answers that I'm looking for, I've started
saying What were you thinking about as you
Sue, I believe that with all students you first start a study about
metacognition then move into the other strategies. Debbie Miller
suggests in her book teaching each strategy for about 6 weeks. For
your k's, there are a couple of great books for them: Starting with
Comprehension and
that's brilliant. and so good for building confidence and critical thinking!
--- On Wed, 3/24/10, Christine Koch ck...@scarborough.k12.me.us wrote:
From: Christine Koch ck...@scarborough.k12.me.us
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Retelling
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
The 2 Sisters in The Cafe Book recommend Check For Understanding.
Model with a picture book, reading a page, stopping, and saying, I
just read... and retell that page. If the student is unable to do the
same thing on the next page, use Who and what? Who did I just read
about? And what just
Has the struggling student been talk to visualize when she reads? Perhaps,
too, she might benefit from having to act out the story when she reads
either with puppets or by doing readers' theaters. I'm just wondering if she
is getting the gist but not playing the story out in her head like a
movie.
I have worked with a school this year K-5 studying Harvey- Strategies That Work
and the comprehension toolkits. I am looking for suggestions on how this would
be paced for full iimplementation next school year. Ex. Do you cover all the
strategies first 6 to 9 weeks and then go back and focus on
My school is looking at updating the current reading textbook that we have
(HM), there are 3 of us on staff (out of 7) that don't use the book now and
would rather use the money to buy more books for our limited book room. For
some of our staff I understand they are uncomfortable teaching
Hi Martha
I've had a different sort of experience that might help. After years of trying
to model and scaffold answers that I'm looking for, I've started saying What
were you thinking about as you read this? and letting the kids take the lead.
They aren't good at it at first -- they tend to
A colleague and I went to Columbia University this weekend to their Spring
Reunion Day (Teachers College Reading and Writing Project- TCRWP). Lucy
Calkins, et al have created Units of Study for Teaching Reading: A Curriculum
for the Reading Workshop, Grades 3-5. It will be out soon (this
The best resource for spelling and phonics, in my judgment as a consultant,
is Words Their Way by Donald Bear.
Maxine
In a message dated 3/24/2010 4:47:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jl...@itol.com writes:
My school is looking at updating the current reading textbook that we have
Does look like something we could use? I can look into it if you want
From: mosaic-bounces+dbaker=ctreg14@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Kelly
Alexander
Sent: Wed 3/24/2010 8:19 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Subject: Re:
I am in school to nbsp;become a Reading Specialsit. nbsp;What are the best
compresension strategies to teach to middle school students in content area?
(Social Studies)
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On Mar 24, 2010 3:56 PM, ws...@mindspring.com lt;ws...@mindspring.comgt;
wrote:
I have worked
Thanks to all of you who took the time to respond to my call for help! Great
ideas.
The graphic organizer is Vicki Benson's: the top of the page is the
'beginning'- it has an inverted triangle (left angle is character, right angle
is setting, bottom angle is the problem). The
We just adopted a leveled text program, and our students are making great
progress. The program is called Benchmark, and it is a MONDO publication (small
company based in NYC). Additionally, the company provides outstanding
professional development as part of the program, and they are
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