Re: [MOSAIC] Resources for parents/lookybook.com

2008-07-23 Thread Ruby Clayton
5 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Resources for parents/lookybook.com Not sure about that one, but here's another option http://www.storylineonline.net/ -- Original message ------ From: Ruby Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not sure. Does anyone else know

Re: [MOSAIC] Resources for parents/lookybook.com

2008-07-20 Thread Ruby Clayton
I'm not sure. Does anyone else know if these books have sound? Ruby - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:05:37 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Resources for parents Ruby, Does this read the book? Does i

Re: [MOSAIC] Resources for parents

2008-07-18 Thread Ruby Clayton
Ohhh, This website is darling! Thanks for the link. I'll use it with my K/1's. Ruby - Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:04:10 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Resources fo

Re: [MOSAIC] phonemic awareness/segmentation help wanted

2008-06-27 Thread Ruby Clayton
All of my children require explicit instruction. The only trouble is that they need explicit instruction in different things at different times. I address this during conferring while sitting alongside a reader. Most of the time when children are having trouble lifting the text off a page it'

Re: [MOSAIC] phonics and meaning

2008-06-26 Thread Ruby Clayton
Bev, You are welcome. I hate Dibels but am forced to give it, so I do. And I don't really care what my kids score on it. I have found that my first graders are fluent readers when reading texts at their level and not fluent when reading texts that are too hard. So I don't worry about the fl

Re: [MOSAIC] phonics and meaning

2008-06-26 Thread Ruby Clayton
Hmmm. What I do after I listen to a child read, and notice the child had difficulty with final e words, I just give the child a simple reminder about how the final e can change many vowels to long. I give the child a few examples and then we go back to that part in the text where the child stru

Re: [MOSAIC] phonemic awareness/segmentation help wanted

2008-06-26 Thread Ruby Clayton
I struggle with the word "balance." What is balanced about teaching a whole class of learners? Some need this and some need that and some need something else. Each child is different and deserves to have reading instruction tailored to his/her need at that specific point in time. I do this

Re: [MOSAIC] to part or not to part (Gina)

2008-06-26 Thread Ruby Clayton
<"well if it made sence, we wouldn't be asking the question, would we?"> Keith, I think the problem with many children is that they don't stop to think if it made sense or not, they just keep reading, right, wrong or nonsensically. Teachers need to ask them that question so the child has a chan

Re: [MOSAIC] Voice

2008-06-21 Thread Ruby Clayton
I know this is old but I am stuck in February. . . and after reading responses, felt that this question had more possibilities. If one wants to add voice to magazine type articles and keep the article from being "bland," one must write MORE than facts by adding one or more of the following: •