I have loved reading your descriptions of teaching reading. I love you all for
your honesty and your firm belief that children learn to read by reading. I
often wonder why the world accepts that swimmers and ballerinas and mechanics
learn through practice.
I marvel at you all as teachers of re
On Jul 9, 2010, at 1:52 PM, soozq55...@aol.com wrote:
1) What were your first experiences as a teacher of reading?
Discuss the
students, and situations, you encountered. My first year teaching I
taught at a magnet school (all the students were bused,
evenneighborhood children could ride t
To get assessments from independent reading, I use "inside the box". I have to
look up the author but it is a book that has ideas and rubrics to use for
independent reading..
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Chapter 1 (Bo
That's because these programs "guarantee" that they will work for all children.
The only way out for them then becomes blaming the teacher. You know,
"inferior delivery."
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Wouldn't it be great if we could post some of the assessments we use with
kiddos during independent reading? I have a fantastic anedotal assessment I
could share. My student teacher focused on Independent reading of self
-selected literature in my third grade class this past semester.
Our
Jennifer,
Don't you think that the more they enjoy reading, the more they''ll
read and the more proficient they'll become,,,there's your proof!
SUe
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From: Jennifer Runde
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Sent: Fri, Jul 9, 2010 2:31 pm
Subject: [MOSAIC] (Book Whisperer)
My reflections on Ch. 1:
1-2. My very first classroom would be considered unheard of now. I had a
straight grade six with only 16 students. I had very few resources in my
classroom, and even less experience. I knew I needed to share my love of
reading, but didn't quite know how to do
I so agree with you. In my last district, we just about had a balanced literacy
in place with a large place for independent reading. We were in the process of
trying to get students to read challenging, rather than easy, text for
independent reading. I had written lessons for the strategies for
Laura,
I sure agree with what you say in your post. My district seems to be under the
assumption that if we taught the basal correctly, within the strict guidelines
of our mandated literacy block, all the students would be proficient readers.
No time for just reading is included in the framew
1) What were your first experiences as a teacher of reading? Discuss
the
students, and situations, you encountered.
When I first started teaching kindergarten, we had to use a prescribed
program. We worked with the individual kids but we were all reading the
same thing. After 2 years, I transf
And also because there has been a deliberate public misinformation campaign by
the DI folk and their ilk to comvince administrators that independent reading
has been proven by "research" to be wholly ineffective.
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1) What were your first experiences as a teacher of reading? Discuss the
students, and situations, you encountered.
My first year of teaching it was 1992 and I was in New Orleans at Adolph
Meyer Elementary, now called Harriet Tubman Elementary. I was fresh off the
Iowa farm and very ver
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