Re: [Understand] Chapter six?

[mary mullin]

 Here's  a link for Pioneer Valley Books:
http://www.pvep.com/home/

If you search the site you can even read the books on line to see if they
fit your needs. I first started using the Pioneer Valley books as a Reading
Recovery teacher. Now as a classroom teacher I use them for guided reading,
especially in 1st grade. Students love reading about the same characters as
they progress in reading more difficult text. They also offer a Book Builder
cd that allows you to customize books for beginning readers, very useful
when teaching guided reading in Kindergarten.
Mary

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Mary Milner <hookem6...@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> My Reading Recovery partner and I also LOVE the Pioneer Valley books!  And,
> more importantly, the kids love them!  One thing we like about these books,
> especially at the lowest levels, is that the texts have lots of high
> frequency words that are repeated frequently, but the texts are not so
> patterned that the kids don't have to look at the print.  Also, even at the
> harder levels, these books don't have so much text closely spaced on a
> page.
> Sometimes that will totally freak out a hard-to-teach kid.  The little
> stories have good plots for this kind of book, also, whereas books from
> some
> other publishers don't have a lot of meaning.  And if you have ELL
> learners,
> most of the Pioneer Valley books are great.  (And, no, I'm not getting paid
> for this endorsement!)
>
> Most kids totally fall in love with Bella and Rosie. Bella is always the
> adventurous one, and
> Rosie is more timid. I have had Reading Recovery students who wrote the
> author of the Bella and Rosie books (who happens to be a RR teacher).  I
> mailed the letters to her c/o of Pioneer Valley, and she answers back, with
> a hand-written letter!
> Mary M.
> TX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: understand-boun...@literacyworkshop.org
> [mailto:understand-boun...@literacyworkshop.org] On Behalf Of Palmer,
> Jennifer
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 7:15 PM
> To: Special Chat List for "To Understand: New Horizons in Reading
> Comprehension"
> Subject: Re: [Understand] Chapter six?
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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