I've done it many times in primary grades. On a large chart paper, the
teacher and the students collectively compose ideas into sentences, then
sound out words, talk about concepts of print, capitalization, letter
formation, paragraphing, etc. Students come up as called upon to write
words,
Have you looked into QAR (Question-Answer Relationship)?
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[mailto:mosaic-bounces+cllc=ca.rr@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of
Tammy Hutchinson
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 4:51 PM
To:
I agree! This is why teacher salary should not be based on test scores.
Usually the students I work the hardest with do not meet the grade level
standards and still bring down the class test score average. Even though
they made have improved the most through the year. And let's not even talk
Did you get these lyrics? I've been trying to follow this thread because
I'm in California, too.
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[mailto:mosaic-bounces+cllc=ca.rr@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of
Patricia Kimathi
Sent: Sunday, March 13,
In additon to more preservice time, I believe new teachers need a longer
probationary period. In California, teachers are tenured on the first day of
their third year of service. That means they only get 2 years to be
probationary teachers--actually less because administrators must decide by
This data is interesting. Large states with high cost of living and high ELL
enrollment are compared.
http://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/articles/article.asp?title=california%20comparison
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 11:54 AM
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I didn't realize that
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Sent: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 12:06 am
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] What's hot in California?
yes, my class will increase from 20 to 32 -- that's 60
Thousands of teacher lay-offs
Increased class size
Legislation to ignore teacher seniority
Unpaid furlough days
Using test scores as teacher evaluation
Poor staff morale
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reword that to say gravely increased class sizes.
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From: Carol Lau c...@ca.rr.com
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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 15:27:37
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Look into materials from Lindamood Bell.
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Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 8:08 AM
Subject: [MOSAIC] want book on language impaired
Linda Mood Bell teaches visualization to learning disabled students.
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Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 3:04 PM
Subject: [MOSAIC] College Help
Hello list,
My son is 21 years old. He is a Junior in college and
I feel the need to speak in favor of AR. I teach 2nd grade. Our school
uses AR in 1st-6th. Each teacher handles it in her/his own way. AR really
helps me guide students into appropriate books for independent reading and
to monitor who's reading and whether they are comprehending-- although it
Our district(also California) did something different this year when it was
time to get a new series. We kept the HM reading series, but HM added some
new vocabulary and writing components. We also got (I'm in 2nd) some
phonics/word building stuff, some centers, some new assessments. At least
Look for Nancy Fetzer
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[mailto:mosaic-bounces+cllc=ca.rr@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of
Hillary Marchel
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:35 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Shannon wrote:
I'd also be curious to know if people
would like to share a couple of their newer or just discovered
books and how they use them in their classroom.
I discovered this series I will use this year to build build classroom
community and positive behaviors. The books are simple
I just read Learning Denied (1991) by Denny Taylor. Taylor, an
educator/researcher, documents a family's struggles with a school district.
While this is not a recent publication, I think in some ways, things have
gotten worse. I am a second grade teacher and I see the weight put on
standardized
Center for the Advancement of Art-Based Literacy at the University of New
Hampshire please contact Liz Arcieri at 603-862-3691 or visit
http://www.picturingwriting.org
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I thought some of you might like to join Jim Burke's English Companion site
(ning, whatever that is). They are starting a discussion of Kelly
Gallagher's book which purports that schools are killing reading. Kelly was
a leader in the South Basin Writing Project I attended a few years back. He
Look into the Irlen Institute colored acetate overlays.
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[mailto:mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer Olimpieri
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:25 AM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email
I know you meant ballot, not ballet. LOL, my schema went out on a tangent
with the spelling goof. Had to chuckle at myself.
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[mailto:mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Ljackson
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:05
There's a book called Knee to Knee, Eye to Eye: Circling in on Comprehension
by Ardith Davis Cole which was discussed by this group a couple of years
ago. Check the archives. It presents explicit instruction in how to teach
students to talk and listen to each other.
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During some insomnia last night, I was thinking about the saturate/soak
vocabulary discussion:
In my Los Angeles area 2nd grade classroom, I work with many
Mexican-American second language learners (and a few otherlanguage learners
plus some language-deprived English only students).
I would like to reveiw either title.
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Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:55 PM
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I guess we should start checking for coupon codes before ordering online.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:28 PM
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Lindsay Barrett George's books:
Around the Pond: Who's Been There?
In the Snow: Who's Been There?
Her husband William George's book: Winter at Long Pond
Animal Tracks by Arthur Dorros (comes in Big Book too)
Big Tracks, Little Tracks:Following Animal Prints (Let's Read and Find Out
Have you read The Power of Retelling published by the Wright Group? The
authors are from the Arkansas--can't think of their names off hand.
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I was trained and served as a CELL(California Early Literacy
Learning)Literacy Coordinator. I think they have now changed name to
Comprehensive Early Literacy Learning as they have expanded into other
states. Anyway, the founders were origninally Reading Recovery trainers;
one was originally
Deb were you in CELL?
--
I trained in a model very similiar to this in California almost 12 years
ago.
Now we are forced to make decisions that put the adopted curriculum
program implementation at the center of our decisions and not the child.
We are in constant battle with what we teach
My trainging with Words Their Way gave me new respect for the
reader/writer's need to recognize sound/spelling patterns in words AND how
closely the level of pattern recognition correlates with reading level.
Carol
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Donald Bear is at University of Nevada, Reno --unless he recently moved. He
was originally from the southeast somewhere and is still a southern boy at
heart.
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WTW is a fabulous, developmental word study program. The University of
Virginia (Donald Bear, etc) and Louisa
I tell them to say a boy kicking a ball when writing the b (the stick is
the boy and the round part is the ball and he's kicking it the direction you
are writing.)
For d, ask them to write the round part first and say c, then close it up
with a stick and say d. CD is easy to remember.
I wish
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