I am looking for some suggestions of picture books/read alounds to use as
mentor texts for Grades 4-8.
Any good ideas?
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I am SO interested in this book ~ I am working with teachers in schools and we
are looking carefully at the co-relation between fluency, comprehension and
studnet achievement. THanks for the suggestin...I just ordered Goodbye Round
Robin by Rasinski from Chapters.
Caroline Vien
Literacy/Interv
We have begun to have students use Kurzweil ~an assistive
technology program that enables students to scan the page an have the text read
to them. Kurzweil also allows students to respond using co-writer and Write
-Out loud as well.
If you re reading to a group of
I was fortunate enough to go to the Dibels training and mentor training. Sadly
this tool was to be used as a screener only to identify at-risk readers ~ and
ONE tool of a comprehensive assessment package for students ~ never to replace
running records, comprehension and discussion. Sounds like i
Interestingly enough, when that question was asked at the training ~ they
talked about the three point decision rule. If you are monitoring and there are
three points under the aimline, then the strategy used to close the gap needs
to be changed, added to ...etc. Are you using an aim line?
Carol
No ~ I meant change the intervention that you are using to help students
acquire the skill that you are monitoring for.
i.e. if it is phonemic awareness ~ add a new strategy i.e. Elkonin boxes, or
the three puppets...etc. If it is fluency, look at the ways in which real
fluency (including
Add The Dream by Chris van Allsberg for Earth Day
Carol
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We use DIBELS as a screener in our board and it is very common to see a drop in
PSF. This is one of those tasks where more is NOT better and that is stressed
at the DIBELS training. The benchmark is 35 and when a students is able to hear
and segment 35 sounds a second that skill is established.