[MOSAIC] help with making connections

2008-09-29 Thread Felicia Barra
Hi everyone, I'm hoping you can help me help a friend. She is piloting a new balanced literacy program that includes reading workshop. She is finding her lowest students have trouble making connections. Any connection that they make is very literal. Instead of using text, she thought she might

[MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections

2008-09-30 Thread stacy hall
Hi All, In regards to making connections, here is what I do. First I spend some time introducing schema and how readers activate, grow and revise their schema when reading non-fiction. We I do turn it over to fiction reading, we talk about how we all of life stories. Our life stories would take

Re: [MOSAIC] help with making connections

2008-09-29 Thread Kare
Felicia, My second language learners lack expressive vocabulary more than they lack background knowledge. I give them a word bank of possible answers and spend most of any given lesson on vocabulary, or so it seems to me, lol. Would it work to have those students first draw a quick picture of the

Re: [MOSAIC] help with making connections

2008-09-29 Thread Kelly Wade
roup Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:09:12 PM Subject: [MOSAIC] help with making connections Hi everyone, I'm hoping you can help me help a friend.  She is piloting a new balanced literacy program that includes reading workshop.  She is finding her lowest students have trouble making con

Re: [MOSAIC] help with making connections

2008-09-30 Thread ljackson
Can she set them up for connections? I am thinking of creating a experience bank and following it by a book that could easily draw the two together. Schema building followed by Schema Application. Lori On 9/29/08 9:09 PM, "Felicia Barra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm hoping y

Re: [MOSAIC] help with making connections

2008-09-30 Thread elisa kifer
I agree with Lori, she could do a read aloud about the first day of school (First Day Jitters) and let them connect how they felt on the first day of school. Make sure that they actually have something they can connect to. She could even try to find a book that fits their cultural background, I am

Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections

2008-09-30 Thread Diane Baker
Hi Stacy - I would love to see the unit you put together...can you e-mail it to me off list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of stacy hall Sent: Tue 9/30/2008 8:27 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Help with

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2008-10-01 Thread Adams Teri
EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of stacy hall Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:27 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Hi All, In regards to making connections, here is what I do. First I spend some time introducing schema and how readers activate, gro

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2008-10-01 Thread Sue Bragg
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stacy hall Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:27 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Hi All, In regards to making connections, here is what I do. First I spend some time introducing schema and how readers

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2008-10-01 Thread Gaynor, Yvonnee R.
Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Hi Stacy - I would love to see the unit you put together...can you e-mail it to me off list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of stacy hall

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2008-10-01 Thread Christa Allan
] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Baker > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies > Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections > > Hi Stacy - > > I would love to s

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2008-10-01 Thread Storti, Donna
: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Hi Stacy - I would love to see the unit you put together...can you e-mail it to me off list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Diane From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of

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2008-10-01 Thread erika522
34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Hi Stacy - I would love to see the unit you put together...can you e-mail it to me off list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Diane From:

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2008-10-01 Thread Tamara Westmoreland
Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Can I have a copy too? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Storti, Donna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:46:49 To: M

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2008-10-01 Thread Suwendy
Me too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC ar

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2008-10-01 Thread Katrina Murphy
PROTECTED] [ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:03 AM > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections > > Can I have a copy too? > >

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2008-10-01 Thread Melillo3
@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Hi All, In regards to making connections, here is what I do. First I spend some time introducing schema and how readers activate, grow and revise their schema when reading non-fiction. We I do turn it over to fiction reading, we talk

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2008-10-01 Thread Elaine Estrada
me too please [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:56:04 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections> > i would love a copy too> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Ta

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2008-10-01 Thread Lespop4
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:03 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections Can I have a copy too? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Sent from my Verizon

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2008-10-01 Thread Maureen Robins
EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:46:49 > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email > Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Help with Making Connections > > > I would love a copy too! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Donna > > -Original Me

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2008-10-01 Thread MARC FULLER
Hello Stacy! I would love a copy of your unit if you are willing to share. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_lit

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2008-10-02 Thread CNJPALMER
Hi everyone! We can put the lessons on the toolpage! Please email them to Keith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) . I have an idea...and I would like to know what the membership thinks. If you have a lesson idea that you think others would like, either email it to me or Keith