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Hi Amanda
Welcome to the list...please post often! We are glad to have you!
I think units of study in this context is misleading. The book Mosaic of
Thought by Ellin
Hi Amanda
Welcome to the list...please post often! We are glad to have you!
I think units of study in this context is misleading. The book Mosaic of
Thought by Ellin Keene divides up her book into chapters, one for each of the
comprehension strategies...these strategies are based on
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Subject: [MOSAIC] Teaching strategies individually WAS Units of Study
Hi Amanda
Welcome to the list...please post often! We are glad to have you!
I think units of study in this context is misleading. The book Mosaic of
Thought by Ellin Keene divides up her book into chapters
CNJPALMER: Nicely said! Thank you. A good reminder of the purpose of
providing tools for use.
judy
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Subject: [MOSAIC] Teaching strategies individually WAS Units of Study
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Would you give out your list of books for each type of grabber?
I didn't really create a list. I just went to my shelf and pulled out a
pile of expository books. I opened each one and read the first paragraph to
see what the author used. Common choices
] teaching strategies-Charlotte's Web
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Would you give out your list of books for each type of grabber?
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Would you give out your list of books for each type of grabber?
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Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teaching strategies-Charlotte's Web
I don't have a link, but I
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teaching strategies-Charlotte's Web
The first line of the book, 'Where's Papa going with that ax?' said Fern to
her mother as they were setting the tabel for breakfast. is one of the
strongest, and most memorable first lines I've ever read. It's a good example
I don't have a link, but I recently taught some lessons on grabbers. We
were working on expository writing, so we looked at lots of expository texts
and developed a list of possible grabbers that included alliteration,
interesting fact, shocking statement, setting, exclamation, personal
I do something similar. Have students pull out the books they're currently
reading and have them read aloud the lead to the class. Decide what type of
lead it is, and whether or not it's a good one. Make a chart of the
different types of leads.
Found these after doing a google search:
still torned
Shelby and Veronica Walker
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Sent: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 4:36 PM
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If you mention it to the literacy facilitator, do you think she will help you
replace
Also, I teach all subjects. We are self containedso, I feel the math
teacher's pain.
Shelby and Veronica Walker
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Sent: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:03 AM
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Ok--you left us
teaching...teaching task to task, instead of teaching for depth, just to make
sure the kids pass.
Shelby and Veronica Walker
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Sent: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:27 AM
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oops... here
My class is listening to the book on tape; read by the author. What a great
voice!
Celeste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, reading Charlotte's Web is like
visiting an old friend. I
tell my students about my third grade teacher reading it to me. Most
of my second grade students have seen
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teaching strategies
Yes, my first benchmark test had me weeping. The kids knew nothing of the
format, and I just knew my kids knew the material. So, I made sure that did
not happen the next benchmark. Now, I feel as if I can back off abit. You
are so right, I thought
I have to grin when I read about the controversy about Charlotte's Web. It
seems every teacher at our school uses this book, but in different ways. Our
newest second grade teacher started to panic at the beginning of the year
because the first grade teachers told her they had read the book
Yikes, Angela! It's hard to be a team player and feel like you can't say no to
these requests. Are they using the same lessons with these books?
Joy/NC/4
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How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go
hand in hand.
I believe that third grade is using the same lessons with the same texts.
I agree that it is hard to say no when another grade level asks to use
materials because then you are looked at as being territorial and that is
why I usually give them up. I am hoping that since the literacy
facilitator
If you mention it to the literacy facilitator, do you think she will help you
replace these maerials? Maybe she could also gently encourage the third grade
to find new resources for next year (with her help!).
Joy/NC/4
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How children learn is as important as
Lots of times, I prefer to use whatever books that go
with the content or theme that I am teaching. For
example, I am teaching Determining Importance using
the Toolkit, and for the first lesson, I am
substituting a book about the westward movement. This
way, I am not only teaching the strategy,
Our district has incorporated many(not all) of the strategies in our
curriculum. We are given a Roadmap Every six weeks we give a pretest and
then a post test. But the roadmap is what we have to follow to teach the
skills. Some of them are the same. But most of the teachers use their
I have mixed feelings about sacred texts but mostly I have to relay a
story about something that came up for us in the late 90s that is the
opposite of what people are talking about here. At that time, we had
what were called grade level required reading texts (do these still
exist?) and
My problem is not with the chapter fiction books because we don't focus on
these as much during reading classes. We focus more on teaching the
strategies through non-fiction and then we model with fiction during read
aloud and the kids practice during SSR when we conference with them. The
I love this idea. Two years ago we slaved writing our school curriculum, and
this is what I envisioned happening when we were first told about it. Alas,
this is not what happened. I can see do much value in using the strategies for
thinking as well as reading and writing. If kids can make a
Once again our staff met to share lessons and activities that we use
while teaching the reading strategies. A new strategey is introduced
monthly. And once again several grade levels are using the same
materials and books to teach the strategies during guided reading. How
do you handle this
wide curriculum map that teachers can refer to
each year.
Cami
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Sent: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 9:23 AM
Subject: [MOSAIC] teaching strategies
Once again our staff met to share lessons and activities that we use
while
We are in the process of assigning specific strategies
to be explicitly taught at different grade levels so
that each subsequent grade can expect certain
strategies to be familiar to all (of course with
differing levels of understanding). This way each
subsequent grade can dig deeper (knowing
I am in the same boat. I have been using the materials from the
Comprehension Toolkit for several years in fourth grade and this year
third grade started using the exact same materials. I don't have a
problem with reteaching the exact same strategies because they will
inevitably dig deeper into
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teaching strategies
I am in the same boat. I have been using the materials from the
Comprehension Toolkit for several years in fourth
I am working to go in depth with teachers at one of my schools. One
conversation that we have had that has been very
productive is to begin considering what these strategies might look like across
different content areas. If indeed, we move
from seeing them as reading stragtegies to thinking
, January 11, 2007 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teaching strategies
I am in the same boat. I have been using the materials from the
Comprehension Toolkit for several years in fourth grade and this year
third grade started using the exact same materials. I don't have a
problem with reteaching
Lori and Angela,
I had the same thing happen at my former school. Charlotte's Web was always
a 4th grade selection in our district, so I bought my own class set, and
laminated the covers to keep them from falling apart. In my opinion, the
book is too difficult for most 1st or 2nd graders to read
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] teaching strategies
I agree with you, but it isn't just with reading materials but with all
subject matter, even read-alouds. I purchased a classroom set of
Charlotte's Web several years ago and the kids follow, echo read, fill in
the missing words, etc
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So I have an class set of perfectly good books sitting in a storage box.
Barbara/6th/FL
Barbara,
This is what Ebay is for. Sell 'em. Regardless of who bought them. Or if you
bought them and don't want to sell them, write a
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