Heather, Those posters sound like a great teaching tool. If you have examples of those posters in electronic form, would you be able to send those to the list? Thanks. Steve
---- Heather Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh, my specialty :) I've taught intervention classes and am now a literacy > coach for the intervention classes at my school. > > One thing many of these students need is success. They have had YEARS of > failure and do not feel good about it. They will tell you they do not like > reading, but if you find the right book for them, they do! > > I always had a read aloud - sometimes they had a copy of the book, sometimes > they didn't. I also think teaching *strategies* (like you would do in > workshop) is the way to go. When I taught my intervention class I used a lot > of ideas from Cris Tovani's I Read It, But I Don't Get It. One of the most > important lessons I did was about listening to the voice on your head from > that book. Many of these students don't realize that you talk back to the > book and there is that voice in your head. > > Also, another important area to work on is teaching them how to access texts > in *every* content area. This is what the program I work with now focuses > on, and we have seen great success! The students go to their content area > classes and feel like experts because they know how to navigate the text. > > It's super important to teach them about text structure - if they know how a > particular genre is set up, they will know what to expect from that type of > text when they get to it. For example, the articles in Scholastic (a GREAT > resource) are set up: Anecdote, general info about topic, back to anecdote. > When they kids know this and are taken through it and you discuss why the > anecdote is there, they really start to understand. Often, when you give > them these articles without going over the text structure, they get caught > up in the anecdotes and think that is the point of the article, when it's > not. > Textbooks have a different structure, as do other genres. In the > intervention classes at my school, we keep charts up about the different > text structures, text features, and different processes we go through to > understand the text. > > On 9/8/07, Janet Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Pat, I have had at least one Reading Intervention class for the past two > > years, and this year I will be having two. The first year I really > > floundered.....tried to make it "fun" and do some novels, etc. That did > > not > > work at all. So last year I tried to make a routine that would make the > > kids > > feel safe, but not punished. I did a vocabulary activity (including a > > SHORT > > worksheet , modeling state questions) on Monday, some short text from > > magazines on Tuesday, some extended response questions on Wednesday, and > > some personal responses to articles (including compare/contrast, > > questioning > > visualizing, connecting) on Thursday. If everyone was there every day, and > > tried to complete the work, on Friday I gave them a day to play chess, > > scrabble, or do jigsaw puzzles. These activities are excellent for > > concentration and problem solving. I had a very successful year with the > > kids, and all but one passed the Ohio State Reading Achievement Test. When > > I > > use short text, I often use magazines from Scholastic. Hope this helps. > > Janet...Ohio 8th Grade Reading > > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: 8/8/2007 4:23:50 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [LIT] Struggling MIddle School Readers > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > > -- > - Heather > > "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of > man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments > fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; > new races build others. But in the world of books are > volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet > live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were > written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men > centuries dead." --Clarence Day > > "While the rhetoric is highly effective, remarkably little > good evidence exists that there's any educational substance > behind the accountability and testing movement." > —Peter Sacks, Standardized Minds > > "When our children fail competency tests the schools lose > funding. When our missiles fail tests, we increase > funding. 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