Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones - visualization/retelling/summarizing for first graders

2007-02-11 Thread CARL ZIEMINSKI
Hi, I am new to the listserve and wonder if anyone has suggestions for teaching comprehension strategies to children with NLD (Nonverbal Learning Disability)? I have a student with NLD who has a very hard time visualizing and will often stop me and ask me to show him what a character's face

Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones -visualization/retelling/summarizing for first graders

2007-02-11 Thread ljackson
What about collecting photographs (google images?) of portraits of people with different emotional facial expressions and the beginning a sort of word wall collage of words that might be associated with that emotion. You could even include actions that a character is such an emotional state

Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones -visualization/retelling/summarizing for first graders

2007-02-11 Thread Debra McCarthy
Comprehension StrategiesListservmosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones -visualization/retelling/summarizing for first graders Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:10:33 -0700 (MST) What about collecting photographs (google images?) of portraits of people with different

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2007-02-08 Thread Kukonis
I also teach first and I like to have kids literally walk a story map that I have drawn and enlarged on a plastic shower curtain. I have designed the retell to look much like a volcano. There are stopping points that we visit along the volcano. It starts out level... like grass and we notice

Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones-visualization/retelling/summarizing...

2007-02-08 Thread ljackson
I am convinced more and more that one of the most important things we can do is to share our reading lives with children, being sincere in sharing how strategy work helps us out when we are encounter difficulties with text. As adults, how can we sincerely model that using only childrne's

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2007-02-08 Thread Sarah Griffith Cartmill
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2007-02-08 Thread annicole
Comprehension StrategiesListservmosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones-visualization/retelling/summarizing... Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 06:59:34 -0700 (MST) I am convinced more and more that one of the most important things we can do is to share our reading lives

Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones - visualization/retelling/summarizing...

2007-02-08 Thread CNJPALMER
I can't wait to try this! Wow! Jennifer In a message dated 2/8/2007 7:16:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: also teach first and I like to have kids literally walk a story map that I have drawn and enlarged on a plastic shower curtain. I have designed the retell

Re: [MOSAIC] strategies for little ones - visualization/retelling/summarizing for first graders

2007-02-07 Thread Olga Reynolds
Here is what I did with my class today-I teach in a district working under a Reading First grant and at a site where the administrator wants every bit in placefrom focus wall to posted standards. My objective was to to teach summarizing and story structure (HM language arts program). I