I Read It But I Don't Get It by Chris Tovani. It is geared more toward Jr
High, High School level, but is a great source for how to help those older
nonreaders.
Lisa Ward
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Cynthia Rylant's - Van Gogh Café
And Ralph Fletcher's - Marshfield Dreams
Lisa Ward
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[mailto:mosaic-bounces+wardl=laramie1@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of
Conner-Righter, Mary
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Star Enterprise, just this year. My school piloted AimsWeb but it's too
expensive for the whole district.
Lisa Ward
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On Apr 3, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Foltermann, Marsha mfolterm...@denisonisd.net
wrote:
I am very frustrated so reaching out to a group that I know is
The best advice I have heard is unless we are able to use and understand the
thinking strategies on a personal level we can't talk to others about them.
Kids know when you are being authentic. My suggestion is to really look at each
strategy and how you use it all day long. It really does
I am an Instructional Coach, but I have heard:
a teacher (21 yrs experience) say if they try and make me teach another way I
will quit!
a sped teacher (27 yrs) say I don't think I will retire now that I am
learning about readers workshop
a student (2nd gr) say I have always just read, I was
I would too considering we just are implementing Fountas and Pinnell and I have
to same fears... so would really appreciate the research so we as coaches are
more informed with research for our administration.
Lisa Ward
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Put Thinking To The Test by Lori Conrad, Missy Mathews, Cheryl Zimmerman and
Patrick Allen is another great source for thinking through a test, and Sally
they actually use tests as a genre. It is an excellent book that came from the
work that Lucy Calkins did.
Lisa Ward
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Ellen Keene tells about all the research and people involved in the forward
and acknowledgments page in Mosaic of Thought.
Lisa Ward
Instructional Coach
Cheyenne Wyoming
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On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:00 AM, Williams, Kim
kim.willi...@trimble.kyschools.us wrote:
I am in need of
Have you heard of EBSCO Host? It is a database full of resources. You can
actually type in a lexile level to search as well. Our school district
purchased it, but I also know our county library has access to it. (Not sure
what the cost is)
Lisa Ward
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In Debbie Millers book Reading For Meaning she does list tried and true books
for each thinking strategy.
Monitoring for Meaning
Activating, utilizing and building Background Knowledge
Asking Questions
Drawing Inferences
Determining Importance
Creating Sensory Images
Synthesizing I
Lisa Ward
Sorry I posted this on Thursday, but did not have the correct heading, so
posting again to see if there is some discussion out there... forgive the
amateurism :)
We are fervent- we concentrate intensively, we lose ourselves in the experience
of thought, the world disappears, and we work hard
Hi All,
As Sally explained we are pushing on, here are my thoughts on chapter 2...
We are fervent- we concentrate intensively, we lose ourselves in the experience
of thought, the world disappears, and we work hard to learn more. We choose to
challenge ourselves. (To Understand, Ellen Oliver
Sorry... I am an instructional coach in Cheyenne Wyoming.
Lisa Ward
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Wow Jennifer! I want to teach in your school...would love to hear their work.
I remember growing up without poetry, got out of it every chance I had. I never
felt I understood exactly what the author meant, and never took the risk to
ask. It wasn't until these last few years that I feel
I would like to be a part of this as well, will get my book ordered if you
don't mind... I would be willing to lead a chapter as well...
Thanks,
Lisa Ward
Instructional Coach
Davis Jessup Elementaries
wa...@laramie1.k12.wy.us
From:
http://teacher.depaul.edu/Nonfiction_Readings.htm
This is a site we came across that has a lot of NF levels of short text...
Lisa
Wyoming
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As an Instructional Coach, I too agree with giving students time to read for
long periods, there is plenty of research out there telling us that all
students should practice actual reading every day. I know that my teachers who
have started with The Sisters CAFÉ and Daily 5 loved it to get them
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