----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies EmailGroup" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Nancy Atwell
> Maxwell! It is 13 miles from North Platte. > Christina, > > Whereabouts in Nebraska? I work on the Rosebud Reservation just north of > Valentine, Nebraska, was raised in and around > Lincoln and went to high school in Waverly. > > Lori > > > On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:21 , The Simants <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >>Hello! >> I am a new member of your group and excited to share ideas! I have >> taught Grades 3, 4, & 5 for 17 years. I finished a > Master's degree in Reading and Literacy last December and will be the > Title I reading teacher this coming year. I live and > teach in a "village" of 310 people in rural Nebraska. Our school is a K-12 > district and due to the open enrollment laws in NE > we have 287 children in our school. 90 students are option students from a > larger town 13 miles away. >> Sometimes I feel isolated out here on the plains, so I am thrilled to >> find this group of effective and caring teachers! >> I discovered reading strategies on-line through a teachers chatboard. I >> bought and studied all requisite books and > incorporated strategy teaching throughout my reading instruction with good > results. This spring I read Nancy Atwell's >>"The Reading Zone" and am now very confused! >> Her basic premise is about your top-down/bottom-up debate. >>Atwell suggests that children learn to comprehend fiction by READING! She >>suggests getting the right book in a child's > hands is the singular most important component to their learning to > comprehend. She feels strategies such as making > connections teach our children to be segmented distracted readers. She > feels that when a reader enters 'the zone" >>of a great story comprehension will follow. She feels teaching strategies >>is only necessary when reading nonfiction. >> Has anyone else read this book? What are your thoughts? >> Christina >>_______________________________________________ >>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.
