Thank you all so much for your input. The district is only considering the three programs listed below. I do know that Open Court will not be considered. I am not sure of the reason.
Macmillan McGraw Hill Treasures Harcourt Stroytime Pearson Scott Forseman Easy Street I do not know why Houghton Mifflin is not being considered either. Does anyone know if the above Basal Programs include leveled text for "Guided Reading" Groups? Thank you! Ann --- Pam Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Ann et. al., > > I am not involved with selecting a new textbook at > present, but served on many committees during the > twenty years of service at the central office in my > home county. Historically, Houghton Mifflin, > Harcourt Brace, and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill companies > have had very strong reading/literacy programs. I > have recently learned that Houghton Mifflin was > sold, so I don't know what kind of impact that will > have on their programs in the future. > Another responder mentioned Open Court and Houghton > Mifflin. I have had experience with both programs, > and HM was, by far, the better program. Open > Court's synthetic phonics was very limiting and not > especially good for learners on the lower end of the > bell-curve! Average and above students did well > with the program, as they would with any program. > But for that reason, I would not even consider it > over the other excellent programs. > > I'm sure that either of the top companies would > provide excellent, research-based resources. But > the bottom line is the expertise of the teachers > using the programs. So, look carefully at all > components and check the amount of scaffolding and > spiraling offered by the top three. You won't go > wrong with either of them. > > All email correspondence to and from this address is > subject to North Carolina Public Records Law which > may result in monitoring and disclosure to third > parties, including law enforcement. > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf > of Patricia Duszlak > Sent: Thu 3/8/2007 8:06 PM > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies > Listserv > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] new Basal Adoption > > > > Hello Ann, > I am serving on a committee to adopt a new basal > series, probably for > next year. I also teach first grade and a reading in > the elementary > school course as an adjunct professor. I do know > that the newest > Houghton-Mifflin is considered to be an excellent > series. It has all > the necessary components of research-based five > elements of reading > instruction. The other series that is equally well > done is the > Open-Court series. I am not as familiar with the > other series, but you > can be sure that they all must be based on reading > research and the > NCLB requirements for reading by grade three! > Let me know how it is going. I will need all the > input I can get! > Thanks. > Pat > > On 3/8/07, ann kirker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I would appreciate any information you might have > on > > the following Basal Reading Programs. My district > is > > in the process of adopting a new one. > > > > MACMILLAN/MCGRAW HILL --Treasures > > > > PEARSON SCOTT FORSEMAN --Reading Street > > > > HARCOURT SCHOOL --Story Town > > > > Thank you so much! > > > > Ann > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Don't pick lemons. > > See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. > > http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news _______________________________________________ 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.
