Yes, I've used this technique for many years and I still love it. I've used it more with second graders, but also with first graders on an individual basis.
Waaaay back when, Bill Martin did great work with this in most anything he wrote, but I'm especially thinking of the teacher's guides of his Sounds of Language series that, I THINK, was published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. If you can ever get any of those materials, do; they're worth their weight in gold. Personally, I've thought many times of Bill Martin the last 5 years. I'm so glad he was still alive to see that we as a profession finally caught on to what he was telling us for decades about sounds of language and teaching kids to read. And I'm even happier that he didn't get to see the gigantic 3 and 1/2 decade leap backwards the profession has made since his death. The other resource that would be helpful for this is to get a high school teacher's composition textbook. With the background from the workshop you attended, you will be able to transfer the concepts from that to whatever level you need. Good luck! I saw a demonstration of this from a professor from Florida (I think) at the CATE conference in the spring. It was fascinating how she managed to get us to take teeny tiny sentences, like what many of my kids write, and turn them into a good meaty sentence very similar to the original in Across Five Aprils. I understand this is NOT a new technique. She used it for revision, ELD students, and reading comprehension. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com _______________________________________________ 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.
