The basal at my school--which I am free to use or not use--is not like the basals in the 70's. There are complete stories from shorter books with most of the authentic illustrations in the regular book or complete chapters from longer books. I can pick and choose which stories I want to use and when I want to use them--for many of them I have a paperback copy of the book for that story. If the children like a story they can go to the library and check out more books by that author--Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say is one story in our third grade basal. We have that book in our library and we read other books by that author when we finished that story. My children have made a lot of connections with that story. I got an email from the mother of a little girl from India who thanked me for reading that story because she could make connections with the way Grandfather felt--loving and missing a country when you were away from it. Laura C
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOSAIC] persuasive Writing Minilesson Book Choices Thank you all so much for the wonderful suggestions - I do have many of these books and have used them in this capacity before... I was just sitting here today thinking I would start getting into persuasive writing right away and I could not for the life of me think of any of the great books I have used... I do not however have Tony Steads book Should there be zoos and I think Sue had said that it is hard to find... It sure is... I know it is availble for loan at most public libraries - but Amazon.com and chapters do not have it awailable for sure... Thanks again... everyone ... As an aside... Where I am from Canada I am not sure I follow the conversation with the Basal? Do you mean to say that in the United States you are still mandated to read from a generic textbook like reader... for each grade level? like we did in the 70's? I do hope that they change this for you - that has to be very stiffling...I feel your pain... Lori _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
