I have my kids "Zone" a la Nanci Atwell's "Reading Zone" in class. They read and I quietly conference with individual kids while I take a status of the class. I agree you must keep tabs in this way. I found if I get them started in class they usually will get the book read at home. We zone for 60 minutes a week when possible. I wish it were more.
Home work is generally classwork that needs some finishing touches such as a summarization pyramid in their Social Studies Interactive notebook. In math it is homework is generally important practice work and activities based on keeping up with skills. Ongoing projects may have homework components and my kids practice personalized individual spelling lists weekly. I think most educators today realize homework should be valuable and not just given as old fashioned "busy work." Tena On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Cindy & Ryan Pickering <[email protected]> wrote: > I teach 6th grade reading, and my students are required to read 20 minutes a > night for a total of 100 minutes a week. Last year I did not have any > accountability for this and I don't think most of the kids were reading. > This year they have to turn in how many minutes they read and it's signed by > their parents. It's a real pain trying to get these all collected each > week, but from their conversations they are reading a lot more, so it's > worth it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Winik [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LIT] Homework? > > > I have been doing some reading from another network I belong too about the > homework debate. I was wondering what practices everyone employs for giving > out homework and whether it is successful or not? Is it becoming a pointless > exercise? Does it significantly impact learning? I know it may have been > discussed already but how does one make homework more purposeful or > meaningful to students? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
