Amen! In our district we are training folks to understand WHEN to do close reading. It is only in passages that are particularly good in authors craft or which are particularly important in developing the theme of the story... Jennifer
Sent from my iPad > On Sep 30, 2013, at 1:57 AM, "Loralei A. Atchley" <atc...@fusd.net> wrote: > > My worry is that, for all of the great ideas in common core, that the > bandwagon effect will mean that trainings will emphasize a one way approach > that means it is always done the same way (ie how to look at a text, then > analyze it to death). I already see the beginnings of this in my district. I > think that the close reading needs to be interspersed with lots of time spent > reading and reading... I think that I would die of boredom as a reader to > spend two weeks on one reading discussing and rereading and discussing and > rereading. As for the professional books, there is already so much great > information out there for creating discussion of deep reading of text that > I'm going to be very careful what I will buy... there is so much money to be > made here.. > Loralei > ________________________________________ > From: Mosaic [mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] on behalf of Palmer, > Jennifer [jennifer.pal...@hcps.org] > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 3:06 PM > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Books on CCSS > > As far as curriculum goes... I would not buy anything this year....many > publishers are holding out in developing new stuff because they are waiting > to see what the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments actually look like... > Jennifer > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive > > > > ________________________________ > > DISCLAIMER: > Any views or opinions presented in this communication are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of Fontana Unified School > District. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
