Re: [MOSAIC] Strategies self check chart
I would like to have the chart, also. Please send to this email. Thank you! Ann Parsons ann.pars...@harlem122.org 4/14/2014 8:58 AM I would like this chart also! Please send to this email. Thank - you From: Mosaic [mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] on behalf of Debra Emmerich [demmer...@mail.seaford.k12.ny.us] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 7:26 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Strategies self check chart I would like a copy too! Please send to this email. Thank you! Debra Emmerich Principal Seaford Manor Elementary School 1590 Washington Avenue Seaford, New York 11783 (516) 592-4050 demmer...@mail.seaford.k12.ny.usmailto:demmer...@mail.seaford.k12.ny.us On Apr 14, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Hay, Sandra S. h...@duvalschools.orgmailto:h...@duvalschools.org wrote: Please include me. My email is h...@duvalschools.orgmailto:h...@duvalschools.org Thanks so much! Sandy Hay Media Specialist http://dcps.oncoursesystems.com/school/webpage.aspx?id=640511 From: Mosaic [mosaic-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] on behalf of Palmer, Jennifer [jennifer.pal...@hcps.org] Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:58 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Strategies self check chart If something is to be posted on the website, please send it directly to me and I will get it to Keith to be uploaded. As of this moment, I don't think I have rec'd anything with a request to post for a LONG time. Sent from my iPad On Apr 13, 2014, at 3:48 PM, katie Cham kmch...@yahoo.com wrote: was this ever posted whole group? thanks :) On Mon, 9/30/13, Mary Morris marycmorr...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Strategies self check chart To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Date: Monday, September 30, 2013, 6:09 AM Maybe it could be posted for the entire group? On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Celia Nichols celianicho...@gmail.comwrote: Please include me, too! Thanks in advance! Celia On 29/09/2013, at 10:47 PM, Troy F wrote: I would like to see this chart also. Troy Fredde On Sep 29, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Patricia Kimathi pkima...@earthlink.net wrote: After spending hours looking at the reading lady website I decided I need to ask the whole list. While I enjoyed myself looking at all of the support available to teachers using Mosaic of Thought, I still did not find what I was looking for. I have always used a chart where the students self check to see if they are using all of the reading strategies. It is a very simple chart and I know I got it from one of you, but I can't find mine. It is a checklist with all of the strategies listed and space for the students to check off what they have used so far. It is wonderful because then they can see for themselves which strategies they need to use more often. Help! PatK ___ 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 ___ 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 This communication may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review,
Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Readi...
YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING! It's hard to believe that all teachers, in their heart-of-hearts, don't believe this, too.! Hold your head high and keep teaching! evelia cadet cadeteve...@hotmail.com 5/31/2012 8:58 PM I understand how you feel. After voicing my opinion in our literacy meetings, against the focus on standardize testing, and the need of teaching the reader and not the test, some teachers in my school literally stopped talking to me. If they see me in the halls, they will look down or walk way. I feel bad, however, I am confident I am doing the right thing. Evelia Sent from my Windows Phone -Original Message- From: rascal...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 1:06 PM To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Readi... I thank you all for your encouraging thoughts and postings. It is great to see so many educators with the heart you all have. Well, my saga continuesI was informed by my administration today that I am a trouble maker and I need to stop being so vocal. The rest of my team feels I am not a team player and I need to stop making waves. I'm moving to AZ as soon as I finish my doctorate in Education (May 2013)anyone out there know of any jobs where it is Ok to speak up for the kids as opposed to the mandates?? Someone mentioned being bulliedthis has been my experience since I began my quest for higher education and more knowledge. Florida is not a union state, which makes these types of actions even more prevalent. I'm trying hard to rise above all of this...but I'm having a tough time right now. Thank you again for all of your posts! What an amazing group of individuals you are! Ali/FL In a message dated 5/30/2012 11:36:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, donn...@optonline.net writes: Same in NJ Renee - the response to any new suggestion made by teachers to improve instruction is show me the data As a matter of fact during a discussion about voucher legislation with one of our assemblyman, a mayor from an urban community stated if we had vouchers our test scores would go up! Say it isnt so! Donna Sent from my HTC Status™ on ATT - Reply message - From: Renee phoenix...@sbcglobal.net To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class (Susan Chicvara) Date: Wed, May 30, 2012 9:38 am I, for one, am very happy to hear this and hope that it continues. Sadly, where I substitute, they are still training all the teachers in direct instruction and everything revolves around test scores, with increasing numbers of tests every year, both standardized and district-created, and piles of test prep materials growing bigger every year, with principals and superintendent touting research that supports things like Saxon Math and Direct Instruction and data driven curriculum. Renee On May 29, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Betty Laughlin wrote: I just went to a workshop for my district where they said the same thing! Hooray! Sent from my iPhone On May 28, 2012, at 9:02 PM, Tracy Gaestel aj...@lafn.org wrote: For all of you in this situation, hang in there. Last week our superintendent came to a meeting of people selected to work on aligning our curriculum to the Common Core Standards. He wanted to tell us personally that whatever had happened in the past, we were now to treat the text books as tools to help us plan lessons that help our students achieve proficiency on the grade level standards. The pendulum is swinging back. I was afraid that this day would never come. (He had to come because many of the teachers couldn't believe what the presenters were telling us) Teach? We don't need to be on the same page? We don't even have to use the same stories? (Someone even asked how can we do that?) I faintly heard the Hallelujah chorus in the background and I had to stop myself from dancing in the auditorium. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright ___ 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
Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice R eading In Class
This is a GREAT QUOTE! Thanks. Beverlee Paul beverleep...@gmail.com 5/25/2012 10:56 PM OH, man! Now you've inspired me to get out the really big guns!! According to Garrieson Keillor: “When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.” Garrison Keillor On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 6:14 PM, kinder...@comcast.net wrote: Thank you Ali! Just close your door and do what you know is absolutely best practice for our countries children! Administrators who have no background in teaching do what they are told, because they are told. Many do not know what they are doing. Let your children read!!! Let them read what they choose to! Read the Book Whisperer. Eileen ( who feels your pain in N.M) - Original Message - From: norma baker hutch1...@juno.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 5:48:26 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students andChoice Reading In Class I hear you! Our new principal wants to buy an anthology and programs. She doesn't believe in conferencing because they need direct instruction. It's all very frightening. Reading Workshop and RTI are district initiatives and much money has been spent on them, but.. they RTI disappeared this year. I'm guessing Reading Workshop will go next year! Maybe we should write the next novel about the future with non-readers because of all this nonsense! lol An old man once said, There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. Ali/FL ___ 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 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4fc01acd589ea1b561ccst05duc ___ 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 -- Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau ___ 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] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice R eading In Class
Congratulations, Jennifer! Sadly, you are a rare breed these days. In their heart of hearts, most administrators feel this way, I'm sure. However, they are being compelled by the 'Higher ups and state/federal mandates (mandates that are created by people who have never taught.) THANK YOU for being one who dares to do the right thing! Palmer, Jennifer jennifer.pal...@hcps.org 5/25/2012 11:13 PM Well, come work for me in one of my schools. I still believe in student choice of reading materials, that good teachers are better than programs, and the best way to teach a child to read is to become a good observer of the child--he will show you the way he learns best. I am saddened by these stories... It is why I went into administration To have a little more leverage to make things right. Sent from my iPhone On May 25, 2012, at 10:49 PM, Beverlee Paul beverleep...@gmail.com wrote: We need to have a giant mandated administrator-read of *Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair* huh? On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:48 PM, norma baker hutch1...@juno.com wrote: I hear you! Our new principal wants to buy an anthology and programs. She doesn't believe in conferencing because they need direct instruction. It's all very frightening. Reading Workshop and RTI are district initiatives and much money has been spent on them, but.. they RTI disappeared this year. I'm guessing Reading Workshop will go next year! Maybe we should write the next novel about the future with non-readers because of all this nonsense! lol An old man once said, There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. Ali/FL ___ 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 53 Year Old Mom Looks 33 The Stunning Results of Her Wrinkle Trick Has Botox Doctors Worried http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4fc01acd589ea1b561ccst05duc ___ 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 -- ýMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau ___ 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] Saddened by Administration Mandate: Students and Choice Reading In Class
This is happening all over the country. YES, our children are SO MUCH MORE than data and, as teachers, we have the chance to listen to their reading, observe how they arrive at their comprehension decisions, read their writing and observe how they function as living. human beings. When I consider the baggage of poverty so many of my children bring to the classroom, I am SIMPLY AMAZED by their capabilities. That being said, they (students) and we (teachers) can always improve--always strive to reach the next level. Isn't that why they call it learning? It is sad that our colleagues (and administrators) will stand by and say nothing because of fear of reprimand or even worse. We're so busy working toward the Common Core Standards--maybe, we need to work on plain, old-fashioned, COMMON SENSE! Thanks for continuing to use your heart (along with your head) when you teach! Beverlee Paul beverleep...@gmail.com 5/25/2012 8:22 PM Believe me, many of us know exactly how you feel!! And in regard to your colleagues, remember this quote by Martin Luther King: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26954.html [image: [info]] http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26954.html[image: [add]] http://www.quotationspage.com/myquotations.php?add=26954[image: [mail]] http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26954.html#email *Martin Luther King Jr.* On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:53 PM, rascal...@aol.com wrote: I'm not sure why I'm posting this, other than I'm searching for some company in my despair. Or possibly you can lead me to some ways to deal with this situation. Today, as we were closing up school for the year, we were discussing next year's kids and administration wanted to know how we were going to group them. (That in and of itself always bothers me). However the statement that truly sent me spinning, was in regard to giving the students individual reading time within class. My administrator flat out told me (and my team), We do not give the students time to read in class. You must be working with the students in small groups and they should be engaged in 'targeted skills not reading. Of course my response was, How do we expect our students to become better readers if we don't give them time to read (of course teaching them how to read)? She simply said, They have to do that at home. Close of discussion. No one else on my team said anything...they just agreed with her. My heart sank. I am so disappointed in the direction our education system is taking us in my state and county. It's all about the pass rate on the test and looking at data. My students are so much more than data! Ugh! I'm sure you can all relate and have stories very similar to mine. I'm just disheartened. :-( Ali/FL ___ 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 -- Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau ___ 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] Invitation: Hi Re: Looking for research on using iPads to im... @ Wed Apr 18 12pm - 1pm (Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group)
Sorry to have missed this special event. By any chance, have you put it on Teacher Tube or anywhere else? Sounds fascinating! THANKS! Elizabeth Nagelbush enage...@gmail.com 4/19/2012 11:06 AM You have been invited to the following event. Title: Hi Re: [MOSAIC] Looking for research on using iPads to improve readingaccuracy When: Wed Apr 18 12pm – 1pm Eastern Time Calendar: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Who: * enage...@gmail.com - organizer * westmoreland.tam...@gmail.com * Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEWeid=M3NmMjcxOXJ1M3BidjJvbHQ4OG4zcXVhNWMgbW9zYWljQGxpdGVyYWN5d29ya3Nob3Aub3Jntok=MTgjZW5hZ2VsYnVAZ21haWwuY29tYWYwNzI0ODYyNGZjN2NjMjZiMWU0NzVjMmYwZThiNThkMzM0YTFjZgctz=America/New_Yorkhl=en Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account mosaic@literacyworkshop.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar. ___ 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] School wide reading.
YOU ARE RIGHT ON, RENEE! I love Alfie Kohn--why don't more people read him? I am so afraid we are bringing down our own country! Do we have things to work on in education? ALWAYS! Do we do so many things well? ABSOLUTELY! We need to work toward improvement by beginning with what we do well and encouraging and promoting children and supporting our teachers. Arne Duncan is a wonderful human being---but, has he ever taught? We need to stop watering the seeds of self-destruction and, instead, nurture the good seed that DOES exist and help it grow. It is amazing how teachers are being blamed for everything that is wrong with our society. I guarantee you that the Asian societies do NOT treat their teachers with such a lack of respect--quite the opposite! Our country is a great country--we need to work TOGETHER to keep heading in the right direction. Despite all that ails us, we teachers must stick together and continue working with our children--who hold the key to our future. WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN DO IT! Renee phoenix...@sbcglobal.net 4/11/2012 10:03 AM Disclaimer: This is an opinion. Mine. I know that many schools have competitions of many kinds, and that competition is part of society and that some competition is just good, healthy fun. But I think it's important to think about the message that *some* school competitions send, and to me, a reading competition just goes against my grain. If I were teaching in this school, I would not feel good about being pitted against all other classrooms AND I would find it hard to participate. That's why I suggested a school wide collaboration (ongoing documentation of books and pages read by the whole school), where everyone works together toward a common goal. Our current Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has pitted schools against schools and teachers against teachers with his stupid Race to the Top program. High stakes tests pit schools against schools and teachers against teachers and students against students. In my classrooms we always kept a running tally of how many books and pages kids read, throughout the year. The end numbers were pretty impressive; frankly, I think they were way more impressive than cafeteria displays of students names who had reached the Millionaire's Reading Club or classroom displays of race cars racing along on race tracks made of Accelerated Reading scores. Am I really the only one out there? Does anyone read Alfie Kohn or Daniel Pink? Renee Goularte 20 years teaching, all grades, ELL, at-risk, GATE, multiage, and Art. On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Phyllis Oliver wrote: At a school where I was reading specialist we used to have competitions between classes.(We only had one room per grade level.) We might have 3rd and 4th and 5th and 6th compete for the most AR points or most pages read. We did this by the month. The losing class would serve the winning class a treat (such as homemade sundaes or popcorn with a movie, or pizza) the losing class then served themselves and all enjoyed the treat. This seemed to work especially well with 4-6 grades. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats ___ 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
