hi, for those of you who have the warm-ups and daily journaling, how do you find the time to grade them or look at all of them? i teach reading only in high school and last year, i had over 170 students. i had to stop the journaling because i could not read all of it with the other workload i already had. i never grade a journal, but i like to read them and comment so the students know someone is paying attention. i think writing is so important in a reading classroom, so we do a lot of it and that takes up a lot of my time. if you become a good writer, than you will better understand other writers. caroline, i am stuck at home because i just had surgery, so i am working on next year's curriculum as well. believe it or not, we do not have one right now, so another teacher and i were give permission to write one. please feel free to email me and keep in touch. i am sure we can help each other. :) oh, and i am not surely exactly what you referred to regarding the 5-minute lessons, but i saw tim rasinski at a conference where we both presented our research. he talked about 10 minutes a day for fluency. i thought it was too much to take away from my 60 minute block, but i did it. i taught 9th graders last year; they scored the lowest in my school on our state-mandated FCAT test. their fluency rates flew through the roof in a few weeks time and more than 90% of my students' scores went up. more than 50% scored over the minimum that the county required...which was significantly higher than what they scored the year before (both of these percentages are significantly higher than most of the county and the state scores this year; many counties' scores went down). fluency was not the only thing i worked on with them, but i think it helped a lot. *\l/**\l/**\l/*Lynn*\l/**\l/**\l/* Doctorate Student, Florida Atlantic University
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