Who is the publisher? Are these tradebooks or books written specifically for teaching reading? Where can I find them? Jennifer Palmer Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher, FLES "Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable!" -Augustine Birrell
________________________________ From: understand-boun...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of janelle dorr Sent: Sat 2/7/2009 8:10 PM To: pehinerman...@yahoo.com; Special Chat List for "To Understand: New Horizons inReadingComprehension" Subject: Re: [Understand] Chapter six? to piggyback on this, I love Pioneer Valley's character, Danny the dog. My first graders love him too!!! janelle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phyllis Hinerman" <pehinerman...@yahoo.com> To: "Special Chat List for To Understand: New Horizons in ReadingComprehension" <understand@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [Understand] Chapter six? > >> Tell me more about the Pioneer Valley books...:-) >> > Jennifer, We have used a lot of the books published by Pioneer Valley. I > am a Reading Recovery teacher during part of my day, so I look especially > closely at the spacing between words, the form of the 'a' and 'g', and the > match between the words and the pictures. Pioneer Valley books have been > great in all those areas. > > There are several different 'series' containing the same characters, and > the books with these characters come in many levels. For instance, Rosie > and Bella are two little poodle-type white dogs. The books containing > these characters range from very low all the way up to easy level chapter > books. In addition, the illustrations are real photographs! That is just > one example of the 'series'. > > Within the last year or two, Pioneer Valley introduced an extensive set of > nonfiction titles. Once again, they range from very easy to more > difficult and the illustrations are wonderful photographs. > > I hope that information may help answer your request for more information. > > Phyllis > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Understand mailing list > Understand@literacyworkshop.org > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list Understand@literacyworkshop.org http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
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