Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-20 Thread judy fiene
Does anyone have any research on text to student radio numbers? I know that some school districts expect 1000 books in every classroom, the state of California states a 25 text/student ratio. Judy Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-20 Thread beverleep...@gmail.com
: Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading Does anyone have any research on text to student radio numbers? I know that some school districts expect 1000 books in every classroom, the state of California states a 25 text/student ratio. Judy Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-16 Thread Renee
Sharon, I love your story; thank you so much for telling it. The question, What is reading? is really the crossroad question of literacy. If one believes that reading is making meaning of text, then it doesn't matter how that text enters the thought process. If one believes that reading is

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-16 Thread Susan Cronk
Dr. Timothy Rasinski out of Kent State www.timrasinski.com/ has a lot to support listening to reading and building fluency and done some interseting studies. At my school we are using several different ebook accounts in our school and the teachers often display them on the Smartboard as a

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-16 Thread Sharon Ballantyne
Thank-you for the kind responses. There is not a measure that can be put on fostering a life long love of reading. Renee's excellent comments on reading are very important. One of the things that also must become explicit in teaching, particularly if students are doing a lot of reading through

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-15 Thread Margaret Jones
://www.libsci.sc.edu/ccbl/abworkshops/ReadAloudResearch.pdf - Original Message - From: evelia cadet Sent: 01/14/12 04:52 PM To: Mosaic Group Subject: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading Is anyone aware of research supporting listening to books? I know is one of the five components of the Daily 5

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-15 Thread Kathy
It's a form of modeling for fluency. Kids enjoy listening centers and if they pick up one word, that's one more word added to their vocabulary and reading words. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 14, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Sally Thomas sally.thom...@verizon.net wrote: Seems like all the benefits of

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-15 Thread Troy F
There should be some research backing it up in the daily five book or in its bibliography. Troy Fredde On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Kathy ka...@laurinburg.com wrote: It's a form of modeling for fluency. Kids enjoy listening centers and if they pick up one word, that's one more word added

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-15 Thread Sharon Ballantyne
Hello all, I have been very pleased to have the listening component so positively reinforced, largely thanks to the influence of daily five practices. as pointed out by another teacher, the children do respond positively. I provide lots of opportunities for listening as part of daily five,

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-15 Thread Sally Thomas
This so so touched my heart. You are wonderful and teach us all. Thank you for sharing this. I will share it on Sally On 1/15/12 5:47 PM, Sharon Ballantyne sbal...@nexicom.net wrote: Hello all, I have been very pleased to have the listening component so positively reinforced,

[MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-14 Thread evelia cadet
Is anyone aware of research supporting listening to books? I know is one of the five components of the Daily 5. My students have been listening to books online and they are obsessed about it. I am glad that they are enjoying this activity, however, I don't have sufficient information on

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-14 Thread Sally Thomas
Seems like all the benefits of read alouds would accrue. I use a handout summarizing those benefits. They include building vocabulary, building knowledge of syntax (especially for hearing the syntax of written language), comprehension etc. No they are not figuring out unknown words as far as

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-14 Thread beverleep...@gmail.com
Check out Elaine Garan's work. Connected by DROID on Verizon Wireless -Original message- From: Sally Thomas sally.thom...@verizon.net To: mosaic listserve mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Sun, Jan 15, 2012 01:04:59 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading Seems like all

Re: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading

2012-01-14 Thread norma baker
short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. -- Original Message -- From: evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.com To: Mosaic Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Listening to reading Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:52:00 -0500