Let me be clear...Peter's idea was the inspiration for my stair steps... I want to give proper credit where credit is due! Jennifer Palmer Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher, FLES January is Maryland Reading Month! "Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable!" -Augustine Birrell
________________________________ From: understand-boun...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Palmer, Jennifer Sent: Mon 1/19/2009 6:16 PM To: Special Chat List for "To Understand: New Horizons in ReadingComprehension" Subject: Re: [Understand] text structures Remember Peter's idea last year about teaching text structure using a dresser? (Each drawer contains certain kinds of information? It is in the archives about April of 08 if you need it.) This was the inspiration... Jennifer Palmer Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher, FLES January is Maryland Reading Month! "Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable!" -Augustine Birrell ________________________________ From: understand-boun...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of Beverlee Paul Sent: Mon 1/19/2009 5:01 PM To: understand@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [Understand] text structures Ooooh, I really love this one!! Lots of kids who are used to a single "climax" of a story, and have drawn a schematic of that, also love it when the story gets too complex to do that and there are multiple peaks and valleys. Do you lucky SmartBoard folk have anything special to plot a storyline?> From: cnjpal...@aol.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:38:10 -0500> To: understand@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: [Understand] text structures> > I know Ellin believes it is important for students to understand how texts > are organized. A colleague and I are planning to use the analogy of a set of > stairs to help second graders understand the chronological text structure of > some simple biographies our students will be reading. We thought stairs show > that the order of ideas matters when making sense of this kind of text... and > how the ideas build...you see how the events in someone's life influence later > events and while you can "jump the steps" to look at just a certain time > period in someone's life, you need to read from beginning to end to get the full > picture of the significance of someone's life. Does that make sense?> > What do you all do to teach text structures with your students?> Jennifer> **************Inauguration '09: Get complete coverage from the nation's > capital. (http://news.aol.com/main/politics/inauguration?ncid=emlcntusnews00000003)> _______________________________________________> Understand mailing list> Understand@literacyworkshop.org> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live(tm) Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009 _______________________________________________ Understand mailing list Understand@literacyworkshop.org http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
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