[MOSAIC] Fluency
Hello! I need to give some recommendations to a parent about how to work with her third grade child in the area of fluency. He has good decoding skills but is very choppy. I have given her all of my best recommendations in previous years, and I was wondering if anybody has any interesting or different ideas that have worked well. Thank you! ___ 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] Rubric for Reading
Does anyone have a good rubric for grading Effort in Reading and Language Arts activities? Our report card must reflect effort in these areas. Thanks, Marianne ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
I don't know what you recommended, but reading aloud poetry together is a great way to help with fluency. Carol - Original Message - From: Carolyn Heaney heaneye...@gmail.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:23:09 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency Hello! I need to give some recommendations to a parent about how to work with her third grade child in the area of fluency. He has good decoding skills but is very choppy. I have given her all of my best recommendations in previous years, and I was wondering if anybody has any interesting or different ideas that have worked well. Thank you! ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] Rubric for Reading
IMO effort needs to be framed as something different than how it is usually thought of : grading tries hard but usually meaning children who are really still very effective in whatever the subject is (the feel better approach) OR conversely a way to subtly punish kids who are good and don't give their all (the not living up to expectations but I can't really give you a bad grade because you're meeting standards approach). Effort should be a significant, perhaps fundamental, part of what is valued in being a reader and writer. In reading we don't just read the words correctly. Making meaning requires time, rereading, considering multiple interpretations, wrestling with the text etc. In short, it takes effort. Writing means writing and rerwriting and revising (really reseeing) etc. Perseverence, wrestling with complexity. These are all characteristics of effective readers and writers, all of them. Those are all issues involved with effort in my view. So the rubrics need to give that message! Sally On 10/19/10 3:47 PM, bmw2...@aol.com bmw2...@aol.com wrote: Does anyone have a good rubric for grading Effort in Reading and Language Arts activities? Our report card must reflect effort in these areas. Thanks, Marianne ___ 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. ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
For me, one of the best answers is readers theater or other types of oral performance. Performers have to practice by reading and rereading. They have to put expression into their voices. A real purpose for fluency because what we're calling fluency is oral reading which is not necessarily the same as silent reading and certainly not the same as performing. If kids have an authentic purpose for practicing they may be more likely to actually work at it, care about it. On 10/19/10 6:23 AM, Carolyn Heaney heaneye...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I need to give some recommendations to a parent about how to work with her third grade child in the area of fluency. He has good decoding skills but is very choppy. I have given her all of my best recommendations in previous years, and I was wondering if anybody has any interesting or different ideas that have worked well. Thank you! ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
You have probably suggested using poetry together. Have you suggested using the recording device on the computer so the child can listen to himself read. Do you have any readers' theater scripts that you could share? Maybe the family could act out a play? The parent can google readers theater and get more than plenty of scripts. Sue -Original Message- From: Carolyn Heaney heaneye...@gmail.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 9:23 am Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency Hello! I need to give some recommendations to a parent about how to work with her third grade child in the area of fluency. He has good decoding skills but is very choppy. I have given her all of my best recommendations in previous years, and I was wondering if anybody has any interesting or different ideas that have worked well. Thank you! ___ 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.
[MOSAIC] List Etiquette regarding Phishing scams (again!)
This whole scam thing is getting tiresome but... We again have experienced a hijacked member account sending messages to our list. The only way to avoid these obvious phishing emails is to put the Mosaic list on Emergency Moderation. So we are on emergency moderation at this time. Again, this is NOT a situation that I want to enforce but it saves members from being feed additional messages from scammers and keeps members accounts being disabled due to software reports of sending large amounts of messages. This type of hijacked email is done through hacking a users' password - generally on a Yahoo, AOL, Gmail or other free email account. From my experience in educational technology, I can tell you that this is extremely easy to do. I have personally been able to guess a password in under 5 tries with most staff at my school. So hardened passwords will definitely make this type of scam more difficult. Those of your using any free email account should immediately change your password to protect your account...and please do not change your password to a pet, offspring, or any other easily guessed password. The typical hijacked user email account will send out a plea for help such as: I'm caught up in a real mess and i need your help. I'm sorry I didn't inform you about my, I had a trip to the London, United Kingdom... ...the key word on most of these is UK or England... Gosh, I hope you are informed enough NEVER, and I repeat NEVER, NEVER to reply to this sort of thing. The message is from a hijacked email account. Replying in any way just adds to the trouble... When you reply to the individual person in the message, it is forwarded to a scammer (err...criminal?!?) who will contact you to try to get funds from you. DO NOT EVER REPLY TO THIS TYPE OF MESSAGE! Replying to the message to our Mosaic list of 3000 members does not do any good as well. As reported above, do NOT every reply. DO NOT EVER REPLY, even if you personally know the sender. Please TRASH the message and move on with your life. Again, TRASH THE MESSAGE! Be aware that any time I see this type of phishing message to our list, that I put the list on emergency moderation. This is done to keep an additional 10-20 messages regarding the *obvious* scam to be perpetuated to our membership (deep sigh). Unfortunately it also requires my approval on legitimate list messages. So, please IGNORE any message from this list asking you to help a person. I'm an educator too, and really want to help everyone (it's in our nature!). BUT do not ever help anyone online without hours of investigation. IGNORE, IGNore, igNOre, and IGNORE this type of message. Replying in any way to the Mosaic membership of 3000+ causes additional waste of resources and in some obtuse way also perpetuates the scam. I've already rejected a half dozen message related the scam. Please don't take these types of rejection personally, but as good online stewards, we cannot post another 100,000+ messages on some scam Thanks, Keith Mack Web Administrator http://www.literacyworkshop.org ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
Hi, Repeated reading is key. You can use Great Leaps, a series of graded pre numbered passages (to quickly calculate CWPM), or any interesting text at the students independent level. I have my students keep bar graphs showing their improvement on hot and cold reads. Also, having them tape their reading, and then listening to it back, while following along with the text, is fun for them, and helpful as well, as they begin to 'hear' what they sound like, and begin to notice error patterns. Judy -Original Message- From: mosaic-bounces+jshenker=lcc...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Carolyn Heaney Sent: Tue 10/19/2010 9:23 AM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency Hello! I need to give some recommendations to a parent about how to work with her third grade child in the area of fluency. He has good decoding skills but is very choppy. I have given her all of my best recommendations in previous years, and I was wondering if anybody has any interesting or different ideas that have worked well. Thank you! ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
You might try You Read to Me, I'll Read to You books...I forget the authors, my books are at school. Poetry for Two Voices and a book by Sharon Creech, Love That Dog could be good choices, as well. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Carolyn Heaney heaneye...@gmail.comwrote: Hello! I need to give some recommendations to a parent about how to work with her third grade child in the area of fluency. He has good decoding skills but is very choppy. I have given her all of my best recommendations in previous years, and I was wondering if anybody has any interesting or different ideas that have worked well. Thank you! ___ 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.
[MOSAIC] Comprehension Monitoring
Hello, I have tried all of Tovani's and Mosaics ideas for helping students monitor their comprehension - but many of my struggling seventh grade readers still appear to be reading words not ideas. All difficulties they identify are at the word level - what does this word mean etc . I have even put inconsistencies embedded into the text to see if they were able to identify obvious comprehension breakdowns - but they even missed those. Any ideas - how do I help them begin to better assess what they understand and what they don't - on a text rather than a word level? Judy ___ 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.
Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
One thing I have recommended is borrowing books on tape or cds from the library. Our public library is well stocked with many genres. The parents I've suggested this to have found it very valuable. Good luck! Cathleen From: Carolyn Heaney heaneye...@gmail.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 9:23:09 AM Subject: [MOSAIC] Fluency Hello! I need to give some recommendations to a parent about how to work with her third grade child in the area of fluency. He has good decoding skills but is very choppy. I have given her all of my best recommendations in previous years, and I was wondering if anybody has any interesting or different ideas that have worked well. Thank you! ___ 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.
