I have not looked at the curriculum maps, but there are posted maps on the
Heinemann site for Lucy's work showing how she suggests using her books for
K-2 and 3-5. Denver's Public schools also has mapped sharing the materials.
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> Pete - Could you post the exact name of th
Maxine,
I'm assuming you're asking how we differentiate lessons from grade to grade,
since the lessons are all the same (K-2, and 3-5).
If I'm assuming correctly, I still don't have a good answer! This year is
the first year everyone in the building has done it. The principal has been
pushing it
dents.
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> Our school has been very pleased with Luc
: [MOSAIC] writing programs
I've Googled "Writing Fundatels and Writng Fundamentals" with no
success. What is the name of the specific program your school will be
using? Suzi
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>My district wants to adopt a
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> > Our school has been very pleased with Lucy Calkins' Units of Study.
> Every
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> Our school has been very pleased with Lucy Calkins' Units of Study.
Every
> classroom teacher has either the K-2 set or the 3-5 set. Our Literacy
Lab
> assistant (computer lab) also has a set, and the reading teachers share
a
Our school has been very pleased with Lucy Calkins' Units of Study. Every
classroom teacher has either the K-2 set or the 3-5 set. Our Literacy Lab
assistant (computer lab) also has a set, and the reading teachers share a
set. I believe our special ed. dept also has a set of each.
This is my 3rd y
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My district wants to adopt a specific wri
My district wants to adopt a specific writing program for the whole district
to use. What do you use? Is Lucy the answer to all? I would really
appreciate any help.
Shar
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Wow, this is powerful. Tell me more about the "stretch" part.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Then we created a scroll that was divided into
five parts: Lead and a
stretch, beginning and a stretch, middle and a stretch, outside ending and a
stretch, and inside ending with a show not tell. (The
I so appreciate this post. I've used textmapping with fiction and nonfiction as
reading strategy instruction, but have not used it as a means to improve
writing per se. My class is in the middle of writing personal narratives and
they're coming along pretty well; however I have about 5 kids tha
I have a suggestion about small moments or personal narratives in the k-2
Calkin's units. If you think of small moments unit as the textmap to write the
narrative and use authors as mentors as the craft lessons to fancy up their
stories... the kids' writing is naturally elevated. I have be
Leslie,
I'm not familiar with the 3-5, and our principal has been very flexible with
us as to how we implement them (not the order, but the timing). For example,
in K last year, I taught the at-risk class, so we didn't even start with
Launching the Writing Workshop until November. They had to be t
Melissa,
I wonder how similar your UOS are to the Teachers College Units...can you
name a few across the grades, K-5?
In Jan-Feb ours look like this:
K - Print Strategies
1 - Print Strategies
2 - Nonfiction Strategies
3 - Book Clubs in Series
4 - Book Clubs in Historical Fiction
5 - Book Club
teachers at
our school think it is good. They prefer it over the 4-square.
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From: Kristin Tarnas
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 1:27 PM
To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Writing programs & philosophy
Hello Fellow Teachers-
This is my first
Our school is currently in our 3rd year of Units of Study implementation. I
believe several other K-5 schools in our county (we have 12 K-5 schools)
have started using this program. We love it. Stephanie Parsons, who helped
write UOS, has 2 books out that have more units of study from which you can
Hello Fellow Teachers-
This is my first post. My teacher cohort is going to be looking for a
writing curriculum/program/philosophy that we can use with sequential
integrity and passion. Right now I have found that trait based writing
makes a lot of sense for my third graders mixed in with other r
pmSubject: Re: [MOSAIC] Writing programs & philosophyTo: "Mosaic: A
Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" > > I LOVE Reading with Meaning
and was curious when you wrote about > the book, Being a Writer... I searched
Amazon and Stenhouse as > well with no luck. Can
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ebook, Personal Narrative etc.
They also offer a program called Testing Fundamentals which we use to help with
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programs & philosophyT
I bought, and have been skimming (haven't read it too deeply yet), Second
Grade Writers, by Stephanie Parsons (she wrote First Grade Writers, too).
It's not written in the same way as Mosaic, but each chapter has suggestions
for doing the writing and notetaking that you're going to be asking the ki
Our school division has studied both editions of Mosaic of Thought and we
now have the new Strategies That Work. In addition, we all worked with
Reading with Meaning. As we begin to look at new and better ways to teach
writing, we are wondering if there is any writing book or program out there
that
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