I loved the year I did remedial reading. I had a wonderful library containing a variety of fiction/non-fiction books at a variety of levels. I worked with students in selecting books that were at their instructional levels. Each child had a 2 pocket folder for a calendar for them to keep track of their reading, a response log (containing open ended questions) for them to answer a pre-determined points throughout the book. There was a lot of individual conferencing. I would use their responses to dictate conference discussions as I did not read all of the books myself. I would also do small group instruction on a variety of comprehension skills, especially those that they would be tested on using our CMT test for a guide.
Most of the kids liked the format but there were the hard core also who could not find 1 book they could read. At that point, I would assign a book but of course that didn't work out that well. As you know, you are not going to turn everyone around to liking reading at this age. I did love that year though! Alice Cortigiano John Martinez Magnet School -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LIT] To Tena via Literacy Workshop In a message dated 2/15/09 9:57:21 AM, [email protected] writes: > In the past 5 years I have gone from Staff Developer, to LA 7th and 8th > grade, Remedial Reading, Social Development/Remedial Reading, Read 180 > Teacher. > ----------- I also teach remedial reading att his age level and I would be very interested in hearing what you did with students in this class. Pat www.pawsofwood.com ************** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/aol?redir=htt p://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=fe bemailfooterNO62) _______________________________________________ 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
