You are right when you say that some kids need to read orally in order to
better comprehend. One way to faciliate this (as opposed to round-robin
reading) is to provide students with "whisper tubes". I had a parent make them
out of pvc pipes - they resemble a telephone. Kids can whisper into
I need some help...
My literacy coach will be working with the kindergarten and primary team to
implement MOT strategy instruction this year. I remember from a previous post
that there is a resource written specifically for Kindergarten (or at least
primary). Does anyone remember the title so
Thank you for the kindergarten/primary resources. I'll pass these titles along.
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Hey all,
I am looking for a few new titles to use at the beginning of the year that are
about kids learning to read. I have used Thank You, Mr. Falker and More Than
Anything Else every year, so I'm just looking for some additional titles
(preferably aimed at fourth grade students). If anyone
Thanks for the great resource; I had not come across this site before!
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> From: Lisa Szyska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2007/07/29 Sun PM 09:33:19 EST
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> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] books about reading
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> Booklists include a secti
Try contacting your Rigby rep. I remember seeing a correlation chart during a
Rigby sales presentation.
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> http://www.suu.edu/faculty/lundd/ReadingSite/readingresources/bookleveling.htm
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> "Mosaic: A
I'm trying to focus quite a bit on the thinking strategies, more so than in the
past, and because I'm being more explicit this year, my fear is that I'm over
thinking and beating it in a bit too much. Here's my latest question:
I an teaching my students about activating and building new schema
I so appreciate this post. I've used textmapping with fiction and nonfiction as
reading strategy instruction, but have not used it as a means to improve
writing per se. My class is in the middle of writing personal narratives and
they're coming along pretty well; however I have about 5 kids tha
Very formulaic - with a few good ideas thrown in. It is good for kids who
struggle with organization and need a lot of structure. Mostly expository
writing with lots of emphasis on keeping to a formula/pattern. These pieces
would never meet the needs of a writing portfolio. There is very lit
I am beginning a strategy study on determininig importance to prepare my fourth
graders for researching information for feature articles. I am bored with my
lessons of the past of marking text, identifying main idea, etc. I'm looking
for ways to spice up this unit. Does anyone have any fresh
Caroline Kennedy's A Family of Poems has a wide assortment of wonderful poetry.
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> Hello - I am currently adding titles to our leveled library and have a
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> of you all. I'd like to add some poetry b
I know this is off topic, but I signed up for the "To Understand" listserve,
but have not received any posts. I did receive a confirmation quite awhile
ago, but obviously I'm not on the list. Does anyone know how to get on the
list at this point?
I terms of the background knowledge question,
Friday, May 23, 2008 9:29:28 PM
Now here's a question to which I'd love to have frank and honest answers from
each of us on this listserve: which of us could score well on a test with that
quantity of reading and three minute "breaks"? I can't understand why parents
aren't screaming their hea
You might want to check into the book Breakthrough to Meaning (Clyde, Barber,
Hogue, and Wasz - published by Heinemann). It talks about a "subtext" strategy
whereas kids take on the personality, thoughts, and actions of a character to
deepen their understanding of a story. I've used this stra
This may be off topic, so if you're compelled to respond you can do it off
list. I just went to a Response to Intervention training today and I came away
a little confused. I agree in theory, however the implementation and tools for
assessment were very "fuzzy" and seemed a little packaged.
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing, but my students use metal
oven burner covers for magnetic letter and math work. They are cheap and they
stack well.
Kathy
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> Hi Lori,
> I don't know
Jennifer wrote:
We are going to begin book clubs and I was wondering if anyone has a good
website to gather vocab, comprehension questions, etc. for specific books. For
example, one of the groups will be reading 'A Boy at War, A novel of Pearl
Harbor".
Response:
I may be opening up a can of
It's going to be very tempting to get caught up in the structures of the
classrooms - that's natural, so give yourself a few minutes to get over that.
Then pay careful attention to what the kids are doing and the language they are
using. Jot down specific words and actions. Also look closely
I hope you have a great experience that validates what you are already doing in
your own classroom - or want to do - and that you come away with a few new idea
that freshen-up your approach to reading/writing workshop.
Have a great day!
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Deb -
Have you thought of using short story, poetry, and non-fiction text for your
grade level and above readers for reading group selections, and having them
form book clubs and choosing independent text for classroom reading? Book
clubs are a way for students to read longer text and experien
Thunder Cave by Roland Smith is a favorite with my fourth graders.
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I have just received a Palm TE2, and I am looking for ways to use this new tool
to keep records, plan, etc. If anyone out there has some effective ways
they've used a handheld in their classroom, I'd be very interested. Thanks in
advance for any input.
Kathy
Thanks for the information.
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> From: "Angie Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2007/07/07 Sat AM 10:01:36 EST
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> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Handhelds in the classroom
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> There is a company called Go Know that has all kinds of
I have often times had to read out loud and would have been embarrassed if I
could not have done so fluently. Some examples: Reading a script out loud
during rehearsal, reading my own writing during a writing response group, each
teaching day I read out loud to students, I read to my children,
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