I am not a middle school teacher but can offer you my experience as a parent and as a district coach. My son's wondrous special ed teacher pitched the idea of doing reading workshops not only with her kiddos (some like my some with significant cognitive delays, others with more moderate reading disabilities) but with the high school freshman reading at or below 4th grade level.
She used Mosaic of Thought, refers to Strategies that Work as her bible and worked very hard to bring best practices from elementary literacy into being in an age appropriate way. Her results were fantastic! I have seen the data and can tell you, it works. My own son is not reading at a higher level (he has a tested IQ of 48, so anything he is able to do is such a celebration for us). But I can tell you this, I have seen a marked improvement in his thinking and reasoning skills across the board! Lori On 8/8/07 2:22 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received my schedule for the next school year. I will have three 8th > grade AIS (academic intervention services) classes. These students are the > lowest regular ed readers on the grade level. Class size will be kept small. > These > kids will be missing some of the more fun classes (technology, art etc) to > take this reading course. I would love to hear how other middle school > teachers > would work with this group. > > Pat - NY > > > ************************************** > Get a sneak peek of the > all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive -- Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach & Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 57555 http:www.tcsdk12.org ph. 605.856.2211 Literacies for All Summer Institute July 17-20. 2008 Tucson, Arizona _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
