Sheesh. Please excuse the typos. I meant "teach social studies for a few years."
Kim ----- Original Message ----- From: "ncteach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:16 PM Subject: [LIT] desperately need advice--how do I weave this together? > Hi All, > > A bit of background: I taught language arts (for one year) and reading > (for > 5 years). I then went on to teach social studies for a some time. I am now > back in language arts (6th grade). > > Problem: How do I weave all that I am supposed to do together in a > logical, > coherent fashion? I am so stessed out trying to figure it out! (Literally > sick to my stomach.) > > Questions: How do you bring together reading, writing, grammar, and > vocabulary in a way that makes sense? How do you "do" vocabulary? How do > you > teach spelling (if at all)? > > Here are the tools that I have: Language of Literature textbook; grammar > book; Stephanie Harvey's Comprehension Toolkit (I bought this last week); > Learning Focused material (we are supposed to use this as our framework); > lots of trade books (which I bought); 6+1 Trait books (which I bought). > > I feel as if all I have are bits and pieces. How do I bring them all > together? Do you teach using themes or by genre? > > Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated! > Kim > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
