[MOSAIC] pizza strategy lesson

2007-10-10 Thread Tammy Corness
Hi, After hearing about everyone's success with the pizza lesson, I would like to give it a try with my Grade 2s. Could those of you who did this lesson please share the poems that you used? Thanks so much. Tammy British Columbia, Canada > > ___

Re: [MOSAIC] pizza strategy lesson

2007-10-11 Thread Patricia Kimathi
I have second grade and would like to try the lesson. Could you share on the listserv. Thank you. Pat K "to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and

Re: [MOSAIC] pizza strategy lesson

2007-10-11 Thread Kukonis
I just finished the reading salad lesson with my first graders. They got the symbolic meaning almost immediately what a wonderfully concrete way to get the message across to both early and fluent readers that reading is more than reading words... it is thinking. I think the best commentar

Re: [MOSAIC] pizza strategy lesson

2007-10-11 Thread CNJPALMER
The Pizza lesson is a follow up to the salad lesson described in Tanny McGregor's book called Comprehension Directions. What I did to make the pizzas was copy some poems on deep orange copy paper (any poem will do...but I used Ripped My Favorite T-Shirt from the book Take Me Out of the Batht

Re: [MOSAIC] pizza strategy lesson

2007-10-11 Thread CNJPALMER
OOOPS! I meant Comprehension Connections! Sorry Jennifer In a message dated 10/11/2007 8:31:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: McGregor's book called Comprehension Directions ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com