Some of my colleagues and I decided to use WTW this year. I teach 3rd.
After reading the Words Their Way, I anticipated that most of my students
would be in the Within Word Pattern stage, so I bought the book for the extra
sorts. It has worked well for all my students. There are sorts for
as an additional resource, you can check proteacher.net and go to the peony
room. It's all about D5 and CAFE, all grade levels. You can find the 1st
grade thread
In a message dated 7/22/2010 11:53:09 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
sos...@sbcglobal.net writes:
Lori wrote:
Are there any
Scholastic has a good one called QAR Now by Taffy Raphael, Kathy Highfield,
and Kathryn Au.
In a message dated 11/28/2009 7:55:37 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
hccarl...@comcast.net writes:
Try searching the author Taffy Raphael. I believe she has a whole book out
on QAR.
Carol
I would like to find the conversation going on about the new CAFE book. Can
you tell me how to find the site?
Cheryle
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Isn't it sad that many in our field have no curiosity, no desire to learn
beyond what they know unless they are compensated for it. We tried to have a
book study last year and even got out Partners in Education group to
purchase copies of MOT for us. We sent the books home for summer reading
I recently a professional development workshop on RtI in our district. The
instructor had several resources on hand for interventions. One of them is
available through the University of Texas at Austin/ Texas Education Agency. I
found that the easiest way to access it was to type in the name
Our district uses DIBELS also. Students are tested at grade level (ex: all
my 3rd graders, regardless of their ability level, read the same 3 third grade
passages for the benchmarks). I have a real problem with the leveling of the
passages. It seems to me that if you are assessing fluency in
Carol, you said the average was counted on the 3 passages of the Benchmark.
Actually, according to the literature from the University of Oregon, it isn't
the average. They take the middle score and count that as the student's wpm
speed. For example, if they score 68 on the 1st, 77 on the
Marg, I think it's all in the way it's implemented and used by the teachers.
Our district has had AR for several years (12 elementary schools).
Interestingly enough, each school seems to have made it's own revisions on the
program. Some schools only let their kids check out a new AR book
does anyone still have the information that was posted from Heineman about
the online classes available for MOT2? I looked on the website and can't seem
to find it. I was asked to forward the info to our Title 1 director. You can
send it to me off of the listserve if you'd like @ [EMAIL
We also use the STAR test. I think the important thing to remember about it is
that it's basically a test of vocabulary. I watch my students as they test and
see the answers they pick. The missing word to one of the sentences is
pantry. In our part of the country (SE New Mexico) very few
Kathy, you might try the library at your nearest university or teaching
college. There's a possibility they may loan it to you throught your district.
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Dolly, I have to say that we have been very fortunate in our school library.
New Mexico voters voted for funding for libraries in the state that included
school libraries. Plus our local district has given us chunks of money. We
have a really great librarian who asks for teacher input as to
Stephanie, I have also used the Fluent Reader this past year. In New Mexico
we have to use DIBELS. Our district has us do it K-3. They gave us palm pilots
with the tests on them so we can electronically assess the reading passages
the students read. Using information I got from this book and
In a message dated 6/28/2007 9:59:14 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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AR is the only way they will allow kids
to read real books in their classrooms during the school day. Yes, they use
it as part of the curriculum, BUT it gets real books into kids' hands. The
tests
I was glad to see what Laura and Bill had to say about AR. Our district has
had AR for about 10 years. My school gives the kids an hour a day for AR. They
are free to come and go to the library at will during that time. We do not
give rewards for points other than recognition that they
Rosie, my schedule is (approximately) 8-9:45 reading, spelling, phonics or
word work, 15 min. recess, AR from 10-11:00, lunch till 11:45, math after lunch
for 45 min to 1 hour, English for 30-45 min. then Science or Social studies
till school is out. It is tough to get it all in. Through the
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