I teach fourth grade and have really struggled this year with differentiation.
Although I get the purpose of it, I am really starting to question the
practice unless the student is already identified.
Here are my reasons
1. If i differentiate for you, some of my students read on a 2nd
Sally, Would you happen to know exactly what book title has the information
about students reading at least one hour during the school day?
Thanks!
Rosie
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From: Sally Thomas sally.thom...@verizon.net
To: mosaic listserve mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent:
I am trying to convince my principal that our current literacy instruction is
ineffective and should be abandoned. We currently use a basal series, and
leveled readers from the series. Students work on stations while I teach small
groups. There are so many problems with this concept...
I
A different perspective if I may...
I graduated 9 years ago from a school that had a clear philosophy of inquiry
based learning. I had no exposure to a basal text, and direct instruction was
also considered evil. While I believe that the ideas presented in the Mosaic
books is the best way
Laura,
I sure agree with what you say in your post. My district seems to be under the
assumption that if we taught the basal correctly, within the strict guidelines
of our mandated literacy block, all the students would be proficient readers.
No time for just reading is included in the
Yes, HM means Houghton Mifflin, and we are not allowed to stray when
teaching literacy.
Rosie
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From: Amy Lesemann amy.lesem...@gmail.com
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 3:29 pm
Subject: [MOSAIC] what the heck is an HM text?
Guys, could we
Judy,
Thank you so much for your responses. I wish that we had similar
minded people in our district, but we don't. Although our current
Executive Director is leaving and will be replaced with a former
principal from our district, I really don't see the philosophy changing
much. I am not
Judy,
I totally agree with you, however, it is not up to me. My principal is
usually pretty flexible, but she is currently out on medical leave. I
agree that reading is the key. They do read on their own-most of
them-as the majority of them have made their AR goal for the nine
weeks. I
This may not be the best place to ask, but I thought I would try...
I teach fourth grade, this is my first year there, after moving up from
3rd. I am also grade level chair and have just myself and two brand
new teachers on my grade level.
I have been asked to participate in an intervention
Lori,
I understand the objective but just would like a different approach. I
am required to teach from a basal and have few outside resources
available through the district.
Rosie
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From: EDWARD JACKSON lori_jack...@q.com
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Sat,
Carol,
Thanks for all your helpful suggestions. We do have Accelerated Reader
at our school, and most of the kids made their goal for the previous
nine weeks. I definitely do not have a lot of environmental print in
the room---fire marshal has strict rules and I am required to have some
I believe that one thing that is being neglected is vocabulary, and
what I call word work, such as base words, prefixes, suffixes, etc. My
literacy coach insists that I teach the spelling rule each week, but
doesn't seem to see that word work has equal or greater value. My
students are
I checked out the Interactive Read Aloud books, why are they so
expensive?
Rosie
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From: Kimberly Mitchell kimberly.mitch...@gctsd.k12.ar.us
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 11:44 am
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] picture books and comprehension
I am looking for a list of picture books and the comprehension
strategies that I could teach from the book. There must be a list
somewhere. Thanks!
Rosie
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From: suzie herb sz_h...@yahoo.com.au
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 5:57 am
Can you tell me the title of the little flipbook and where to purchase
it?
Thanks!
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From: EDWARD JACKSON lori_jack...@q.com
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 2:48 am
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teaching comprehension skills
Janet Allen has
I currently teach fourth grade, after having taught third for many
years. I am really struggling with reading this year. I am very tied
in respect to how I may teach reading. I am required to have a 30
minute whole group reading session, with 60 minutes of station time.
During stations I
I know this may not be want you want, the stories are from the Odyssey,
but Mary Pope Osborne has a series for elementary students. The first
in the series is called The One-Eyed Monster. They make work if you
have some below level students. My class read the first one, I teach
fourth grade
I got a grant for about 10 titles of this author, with 7 books of each
title. I plan to use them to introduce math concepts in small groups.
Rosiec
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From: craigz...@aol.com
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Fri, Jul 24, 2009 12:17 am
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC]
I have never really got phonics. When my students have to sort
words into categories based on their phonics rules I always have to a
colleague tell me the answer. I obviously did not learn to read this
way...and I have two college degrees.
Rosie
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From: Renee
I am required to use the HM reading series. At grade level 4 what they
call phonics is not what I consider phonics. For instance ...base
words, suffixes, contractions, word roots, and homophones. In my mind
this is not phonics, I would call this word work.
Rosie
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Another hmm, how do children learn to read in countries where there is
no system based on phonics. For instance, Japan or China? Is there a
corresponding sound to each symbol? Or is it more just sight
recognition of each symbol? Do the symbols mean different things in
different contexts?
Yes I agree that aren't phonics. I must have a phonics objective
listed for each week in language arts, and this is what I will be
using.
Rosie-who is phonically challenged!
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From: beverleep...@gmail.com
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
When I was a new teacher I was given the following advice...If you
expect students to do something, they will do it. My students are
required to read as their morning work. They also read for about 20
minutes during the literacy block. There is accountability in the fact
that we emphasize
Ellin,
Although I am using a lurker on this list...your thoughts and comments
were amazing to me. My frustration is in that I am required to teach
from a basal, within a pre-defined framework of 30 minutes of whole
group instruction and 60 minutes of center time-while I am teaching
small
I have taught third for the past five years and our district started
using DIBELS for 3-5 students. K-2 may use them also, but I am not
really sure. My biggest beef is that students entering third grade are
never really reading on grade level yet they are according to the
state's K-2
I teach third grade and we were required to assess our students the very first
day!? We had to give the DIBELS, a Critchlow vocabulary test, a spelling and
high frequency word test as well as the baseline test for the HM series.? This
was done all week long.? Surprisingly my kids did fairly
I teach third grade and we are expected to do this the very second week of
school.? Realistically this should take at least 4-6 weeks at my grade level.
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From: Renee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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NC gives third grade students a pre-EOG (End of Grade test).? It must be given
within the first three weeks of school.? It is used as a benchmark score for
the end of the year test that all students take in our state grades 3-8.? It
assesses their second grade skills.
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My district has adopted HM with fidelty.? The district has provided us with
a timeline that gives each story, the skill, etc. and when to teach it.? We are
required to teach a 90 minute literacy block, 60 minutes of which must be
stations and small group instruction.? We have even been told
Not sure how to answer the question.? My son is SLD in reading and just took
the SAT for the second time.? His critical reading score was 370, yet his math
score was 600.? I guess it depends on where he wants to go to college and for
what.? Many top schools are not even looking at SAT
I love this idea!? I teach third grade, and am puzzled why we don't spend more
time on things like this, as opposed to phonics rules.?
Rosie
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Sent: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 5:51 pm
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Re
In a message dated 5/31/2008 2:38:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am very interested in reviewing Put Thinking in the Test, and would like
to know more about how to be included. I tried the last time, but without
success.
I would also like to review this one.
In a message dated 5/20/2008 11:28:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
decided to (buy and) study Test Talk (Greene Melton)
What is Test Talk?
Rosie
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In a message dated 5/23/2008 9:29:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
This looks really interesting. has anyone signed up?
Rosie
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My entire school will get smarbaords for each classroom by the beginning of
next school year. I am beginning to collect idas as well, so looking forword
to others suggestions.
Rosie
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I currently teach in a third grade classroom, my school is Title I and we
are in our third year of not making AYP. We are requied to teach a 90 minute
literacy block. 30-40 minutes of whole group instruction with a 60 minute
rotation for stations and small group instruction. We are NOT
Linda,
Thanks for your suggestions. I only have four stations per week. Students
are either in..small group instruction with me, Thinking Lab (this is for
accelerated reading time) and the actual station. Everyone does the same
station during the 60 minute rotation. I only have two
In a message dated 1/5/2008 6:45:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rosie,
What basal are you required to use?
Deb (SpEd in IL)
I am required to use Houghton Mifflin which from what I can see does not
offer the differentiation that I am supposed to be doing.
Rosie
In a message dated 1/5/2008 7:23:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whining? Hardly. I am impressed that you are still an educator. What a
Brave New World we lived in.
This is my sixth year of teaching, I started at age 39. I love working
with my students each
In a message dated 1/5/2008 7:45:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, mrs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you research Interactive
Notebook-type notebook, you will find the notebook itself IS the product.
Kim
Kim,
This looks very interesting. I just googled it and most of the information
I currently teach third grade and we use Houghton Mifflin-supposedly with
fidelty. That said, we are supposed to be tiering our stations and I am
really not sure what this is supposed to look like. We have been reamed by
the
AP because our benchmarks scores don't match our report card
In a message dated 10/14/2007 2:42:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.elemedu.ccs.k12.nc.us/Default.htm_
Darn,
I thought this would link you to the exact page, but I guess not. Click on
resources on the left hand side. This should take you to the
_http://www.elemedu.ccs.k12.nc.us/Default.htm_
(http://www.elemedu.ccs.k12.nc.us/Default.htm)
This list will take you to some bookmarks that have different levels of
question stems on it. I am using them with my third graders.
Rosie
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writes:
Having said that, last year at my school we were
presented with a great deal of research that stated that it was essential
that
children in grades k-2 are explicitely taught phonics in a systematic
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PROTECTED]
writes:
As far as I can tell for a student with a 504 plan for ADHD the only thing
necessary is for the parent to say the student has ADHD and for the teachers
to agree that's probably true. (Although the
In a message dated 9/3/2007 10:21:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am, and will remain, a staunch opponent of AR. If I moved to another
school
and they adopted AR, I would be looking for another teaching position.
Joy,
I totally agree with you, but it is
I do not teach in a school with Reading First.? I am going to try to adapt the
basal for lit circles-another teacher in our district has done something
similar.? I do know that there are enrichment suggestions for gifted students
in the HM curriculum and will look into that as well.?
I
Laura,
Your question is confusing, can you clarify?
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From: Laura Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group'
mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:26 am
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] gifted cluster class
How is a
I am really not sure how to answer this question.? My students can be
classified as gifted in math and/or reading.? I am not aware of each students
classification at this time.?
As far as teaching from the basal, all I can tell you is that my entire county
is required to work with the HM
I am in NC.
Rosie
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From: Beverlee Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Sent: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 8:03 pm
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] gifted cluster class
What state do you teach in, Rosie?
I am really not sure how to answer this question.? My students
In my opinion STAR is strictly assessing vocabulary. There is no assessment
of higher level thinking skills within the context of a real story.
Rosie
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In a message dated 7/20/2007 9:31:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you meeting the needs of 90% of your students?
My district adopted HM last year and we are supposed to be using it with
fidelty-meaning we aren't allowed to supplement with any non-HM
In a message dated 7/21/2007 9:24:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our district does that with the Reading First mentality, especially in the
primary grades. When the literacy coaches (reading police)
I don't teach in a reading first school, I am the one with
In a message dated 7/19/2007 8:34:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ljackso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have also been somewhat torn about the role that the union plays but have
come to different conclusions.
What an interesting topic of conversation. My only reply is be thankful you
live
I know very little about Wilson reading myself. However, when my son was in
the sixth grade and we had moved to a new state, he was offered a Wilson
reading class as part of his IEP. It just happened that he ended up having it
for two periods each day the entire year.
It helped him
Does anyone know where I can purchase clips that hang from your chalkboard
to hang chart paper from?
Rosie
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My district adopted Houghton Mifflin this school year. The basal stories
are good, the problem I have with the series is that our district has decided
that we aren't supposed to use anything other than the publishers components.
I teach third grade and there are leveled readers, however,
In a message dated 2/19/2007 6:48:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also,
when some students have already read something, they tend to ruin it for
others. How do you work around situatons like this?
I teach third grade and we must teach reading from a basal.
In a message dated 2/18/2007 2:21:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Debbie
A great way for your grade 2 students to understand non - fiction text is to
make a non -fiction conventions notebook. You will find a great example on
the Tools for Teachers page on the
In a message dated 2/10/2007 5:55:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now I agree that once a week--you are not going to see major gains.
But, if you use the information you get from the fluency checks to
drive your instruction you will see positive gains over time.
In a message dated 2/10/2007 8:21:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I agree with Lori. Also there are many other strategies for building
fluency, such as choral reading, and echo reading.
I think the idea behind checking their fluency is to make sure you are
In a message dated 2/9/2007 5:41:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But the thing that sticks with me most about your post is that you are
doing these fluency checks weekly. Let's see 20 students 5
minutes per students (the test itself plus all the transition
I am sorry if this sounds negative but I am trying to get some clarification
on something. My school is a low-performing school that is required to
teach exclusively from the Houghton Mifflin basal. We MUST do a fluency
record
on each child who is not reading at grade level every week.
I have never been trained in Guided Reading and having been reading up on
it. My question is this-Do the students need to be reading a text that they
can read independently? I teach third grade and am required to use the
leveled readers that come with out basal series. Only problem is
In a message dated 12/25/2006 12:53:59 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rosie,
We are both in NC, and I see this as well. Parents that believe that
baseball, football, soccer, and dance are more important than reading!
It isn't really sports and dance that I see
In America we educate everyone, this is not true in other countries. We
need to stop comparing ourselves. Additionally, we need to stop believing
that
if every child doesn't go to college that we have failed. Not everyone wants
to go or should go to college. Our economy cannot support
In a message dated 12/6/2006 11:16:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That said, I would TOTALLY AVOID any highly scripted
program if you can. We have Houghton Mifflin, and the
kids really seem to like the pieces and read alouds
that I choose. I also like that there
In a message dated 11/27/2006 11:16:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3. Students placed in the program should fit the profile - this means that
the student must be reading at least a 3rd gr. reading level, otherwise
materials provided will be too difficult.
I
In a message dated 11/24/2006 5:17:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Meg,
Go to:
www.madison.k12.wi.us
Follow:
Programs and Depts.
All Prog. and Dept.
Lang. Arts
This was a very interesting website. I noticed that some of your test
questions are open ended. We
In a message dated 10/23/2006 10:23:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/tools.htm
I don't see anything about a math booklet at the bottom. I see something
about a Debbie Miller book list.
Am I blind?
Rosie
In a message dated 10/9/2006 6:43:18 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
Wow! Where in the world do you get one hour
In a message dated 10/8/2006 4:20:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why not ask THEM what the purposes are for reading, and make a chart of
their responses?
When I asked my students this last year they told me it was to take an AR
test.
Rosie
In a message dated 10/8/2006 8:55:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As for
AR, I don't read books because of the level of difficulty, but because I
want to
read them. Sometimes those books are easy children's books that make me
laugh or cry, sometimes they are
I am embarrassed to say that the beginning of the school has been so
stressful that I didn't even realize I hadn't been getting mail from this
list.
I apologize!
Rosie
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