Re: [MOSAIC] Benchmark Testing

2012-04-08 Thread Deb Lawson
My district uses the DRA and the benchmark assessment from our reading series. We give the DRA in the fall and spring to everyone. If a child is below grade level we also give them the DRA in January. Deborah Lawson Sent from my iPad On Apr 3, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Debra Pellerin wrote: > We u

Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading.

2012-04-08 Thread Jennifer Olimpieri
Hi. I work in a k-5 school as a reading consultant. We currently have a monthly calendar that kids turn in to get a small prize. At the end of the year the get recognized, so on and so forth. However, the program is old and not very enticing. The younger ones are usually the ones turning in the

Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading.

2012-04-08 Thread Rascal570
This is not a reading program but an incentive programthis may help. I know my kids love it! _http://www.bookitprogram.com/_ (http://www.bookitprogram.com/) Ali/FL In a message dated 4/8/2012 9:32:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lcasta...@linden.k12.nj.us writes:   http://www.america

Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading.

2012-04-08 Thread LINDA CASTALDO
  http://www.americanreading.com/   American Reading Company is expensive but it puts books into the hands of every child. Each student gets leveled and takes home books each night.  There is a chart and a log. Check it out   Lin -Original Message-From: Jennifer Olimpieri Sent: 4/8/2012 9

Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading.

2012-04-08 Thread Sally Thomas
I HIGHLY recommend the book Day to Day Assessment in the reading Workshop; Making informed Instructional Decision in Grades 3 - 6. By Sibberson and Szymusiak. Honestly I taught a reading workshop classroom for years grades 5 - 6. Much of my doctoral research had to do with intrinsic motivati

Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading.

2012-04-08 Thread Beverlee paul
There's a nice little book on amazon/kindle by Todd R. Tystad called Family Literacy or something like that that should help. Sent from my iPad On Apr 8, 2012, at 9:38 PM, Dear wrote: > > Have you thought of having a raffle in addition to the small prize? We used > to seek donations to make

Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading.

2012-04-08 Thread Dear
Have you thought of having a raffle in addition to the small prize? We used to seek donations to make "summer fun bags." The bags would contain a combination of reading and fun prizes. We collected the students reading graphs and pulled one per class. This seemed keep the excitement going t

Re: [MOSAIC] School wide reading.

2012-04-08 Thread Renee
What about simply logging the amount of time and number of pages read, by class and collectively as a school? Each class could keep their own counts and turn them in weekly and maybe the student council or some other designated group could tally for all the classes and add to the collective

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