Bill wrote: What are topics you'd like to explore as we move through the year? How do you see your needs evolving at different stages of the year (for example - beginning of school, autumn settling in, Thanksgiving and subsequent holidays, winter blahs, spring hope, end of school)? This can help us set an agenda for what we'd like to accomplish during the year.
Pam writes: I'd like to discuss how others flip-flop reading and writing workshop (or how they work both into their curriculum). I'd also like to discuss scaffolding instruction, esp. w/ ESL and ESE populations, specificially how do you begin pulling support away without causing the students to panic or disengage? How do others work test prep into their workshops. Reality dictates that my pay is about to be based on how well my students perform on THE state test. So...as much as I'd rather sweep the high-stakes testing under the rug, I can't afford to. :o) Pam/6th gr./FL An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France (1844 - 1924) ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =0 _______________________________________________ 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
