What is YA lit please???
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I want to address both issues: content area reading and stamina. As a high
school reading teacher (Florida mandates that underperforming students must
take semesters of reading classes in lieu of electives.), my experience has
taught me that students need a period of time during the day to read
self-selected text to help build stamina. This is a practice we were fortunate
to incorporate in our classes. However, it must be monitored or they will sit
their and pretend to read. We spent hours teaching them how to pick out great
books. We read and familiarized ourselves with YA lit. We could recommend books
that teenagers literally 'eat' up! We built our kids' stamina to being able to
sit for an hour engrossed in a book. I am not making this up. Oh, yes, we built
large classroom libraries filled with YA lit.
Now you are wondering when we had to to instruct and just what does a reading
teacher do in high school.
We had a smart administrator. Our blocks of time were 110 minutes long. That
leaves a great deal of time for instruction and practice and monitoring. We
worked on teaching our kids to think about what they were reading, not just to
read the words. We taught them to mark up text, like all college students do.
Cris Tovani has written several books that inspired our instructional practice.
One of our best HS reading teachers was originally a middle school social
studies teacher who used many of these practices in his MS classroom.
I admire the fact that you want to help your kids understand what they are
reading. Trust me it can be done. I did it for five years. I miss my teenagers!
But now I have a chance to make a difference when they are young.
Linda Janney
John Muir Elementary School
Second Grade
"Nobody can change you unless you want the change to happen."
Patrick Ndovie
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 21:16:00 -0500
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I received this email and I believe she intended it for the Mosaic group so
I am forwarding it on:
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My name is C. Wright. I am trying to incorporate reading into my 11th grade
content area because our students score low on the reading and social
studies part of the exam. I know part of the problem is that may students
do not know how to read. Some do not comprehend. So I am trying to teach
students how to be successful readers on the test as well as acquire a life
skill. I noticed that if the passages are long many students do not any
attempt to read. My greatest problem is trying to find strategies that work
during a reading assignment. The before and after is okay, but during the
reading my strategies fade.
Carolyn Wright
wchwri...@wilcox.k12.al.us
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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 05:12:54 -0600
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 21:16:00 -0500
"ginger/rob" <read.th...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I received this email and I believe she intended it for the Mosaic group so
> I am forwarding it on:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> My name is C. Wright. I am trying to incorporate reading into my 11th grade
> content area because our students score low on the reading and social
> studies part of the exam. I know part of the problem is that may students
> do not know how to read. Some do not comprehend. So I am trying to teach
> students how to be successful readers on the test as well as acquire a life
> skill. I noticed that if the passages are long many students do not any
> attempt to read. My greatest problem is trying to find strategies that work
> during a reading assignment. The before and after is okay, but during the
> reading my strategies fade.
> Carolyn Wright
> wchwri...@wilcox.k12.al.us
>
>
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A resource you might want to purchase is a book called,"Taking the
Test"..Authored by Connrad, Allen, Zimmer...they are Colorado teachers, staff
developers with PEBC...it highlights teh CSAP state test but migh offer
valuable strategies. DB
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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:14:42 -0700
From: Sally Thomas <sally.thom...@verizon.net>
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I think many readers don't develop reading stamina. The effort tires them
quickly, and it's especially hard when they are not motivated. I would not
lower the quality of the readings but make them shorter. Pick out key
passages for them to problem solve with as readers and then you fill in the
gaps with your input. OR jig saw and let students teach each other their
shorter parts. As an English teacher for example, I would pick 5 or 6 key
scenes (either because of theme, plot, whatever) and students would read
those in the original with great care and lots of discussion, often reading
as readers theater etc. But I would fill in the rest. They did not have
the stamina to wrestle with the whole play in Elizabethan English.
How wonderful that you are seeing your role in supporting students reading
in the content areas!!! Takes a village as the saying goes. Thank you.
Sally
On 11/3/10 7:16 PM, "ginger/rob" <read.th...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I received this email and I believe she intended it for the Mosaic group so
> I am forwarding it on:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> My name is C. Wright. I am trying to incorporate reading into my 11th grade
> content area because our students score low on the reading and social
> studies part of the exam. I know part of the problem is that may students
> do not know how to read. Some do not comprehend. So I am trying to teach
> students how to be successful readers on the test as well as acquire a life
> skill. I noticed that if the passages are long many students do not any
> attempt to read. My greatest problem is trying to find strategies that work
> during a reading assignment. The before and after is okay, but during the
> reading my strategies fade.
> Carolyn Wright
> wchwri...@wilcox.k12.al.us
>
>
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