Re: [MOSAIC] 5th Grade State Pals-Organization

Darlene, This is a great start with Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii (both islands of Oahu & Maui), Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, & Ohio participating! The last postcard activity I participated in (organized by another MOSAIC member) wasn't too cumbersome; the problem was that many teac

Re: [MOSAIC] 5th grade State Pals

Thank you all who have replied! Please add your name below and send to my email please at katdu...@aol.com (off-line of the Mosaic group so we don't crowd everyone's inboxes). This will be a great opportunity for our 5th graders to practice making connections and synthesizing! 1. Ala

[MOSAIC] 5th grade State Pals

I'm looping to 5th grade this coming year. Any other 5th grade teachers interested in pen palling for information about their respective home states? Would even love to try Skype-ing if our tech teacher would be willing to set it up. Kathy Hawai'i ** Dell Days of Deals! June 15-24 -

Re: [MOSAIC] read alouds

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Re: [MOSAIC] prediction

I've been using Linda Hoyt's comprehension strategy lessons in her Interactive Read Alouds series for gr. K-1 and 2-3. My gr. 2 students enjoyed the predicting strategy lesson for Blueberries for Sal..their schema for bears led their thinking one way, so there were opportunities for them to re

Re: [MOSAIC] 2nd language learners-for Heather

In a message dated 5/6/07 4:34:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm looking for some books/articles that share success stories in > situations similar to this. I can find info on schools that work with lots of > economically disadvantaged kids, but we're unique in that we have so many 2nd > l

Re: [MOSAIC] Mother's Day

Thanks! I have Mama Had a Dancing Heart, but will look into getting Saturdays and Teacakes. In a message dated 4/17/07 1:04:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Saturdays and Teacakes--Lester Laminack (Memoir, relationship with > grandmother) > Mama Had a Dancing Heart > > > > On 4/17/07 4:13

[MOSAIC] Mother's Day

Anyone have suggestions for touch-stone texts about mothers that lends to MOT strategies? My students have been apprenticing as authors and I'd like them to write a memoir about their mothers/grandmothers/female caregiver as a Mother's Day gift. Thanks! kat grade 2 honolulu, hawaii ***

Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency Research Powerpoints-- for Rosie

Rosie, I finally tracked down the original email per this discussion. What you say about texts becoming more and more difficult and the vocabulary more sophticated is just what the empirical research shows! In a previous email I sent the link to our website (we are a federal education lab,

Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency

You can also go to http://www.prel.org/programs/rel/fluency.asp for A Focus on Fluency booklet written by Rasinski (a PDF you can download) as well as PowerPoints by Foorman, Shanahan, Stahl, Hiebert, Torgensen, Jager Adams, and Kamil. They were the researchers that attended our Focus on Fluency

Re: [MOSAIC] comments on NCLB----low test scores--LONG

Hi Olga, I feel your frustrations as I have them too. I loop 2nd-3rd grade in a school in Hawaii that has the largest ELL population. This year I'm teaching 2nd and I've only 3 native English speakers. The rest of my classes comprises students whose L1 is Marshallese, Chuukese, Filipino (Taga