I agree with Joy about content resources and their limited quantity in most
schools. But the really wonderful thing is that there are fabulous leveled
books that are available for purchase. When I ordered for our leveled library
at the outset, I ordered many nonfiction titles in the content we were teaching
at the time. And I've been able to keep up with changes by ordering a few more
each year. I ordered heavily from Newbridge, Sundance, Mondo, National
Geographic, Crabtree, Scholastic, Red Brick, Yellow Umbrella, Rigby, Wright,
and Children's Press. Some of our teachers use leveled books exclusively for
their year's social studies and some for specific units int heir texts.> I
agree about departmentalization. We tried it at our school, and abandoned it
after the second year.> > However, it is harder to teach science or social
studies through reading, because the kids need to read the info on their
reading level and you have to find qualtiy materials at differentiated reading
levels. It's not that we are lazy, but it's frustrating when your school
doesn't have the resources to do it properly.
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