The way it was presented to us was the prof put a sentence on the overhead. --- The house stood on the corner.. and then showed us another sentence. --- The house was blue. she asked us to combine the sentences. We gave her several. --- The blue house stood on the corner. --- The house, that was blue, stood on the corner. Obviously some were better grammatically than others. She continued: Combine this one with the other. --- The house had a tall fence around it. and we gave her: --- The house with the tall fence on the corner, was blue. --- The blue house on the corner had a tall fence around it. --- The house on the corner with the tall fence around it was blue.
She said it was mainly a revision strategy, but I can see it being used for a whole lot more than that. She took a long drawn paragraph from Across Five Aprils. She broke it down into its smallest pieces. We combined it together and discussed the vision we were getting as we dealt with each part. Finally we read the actual paragraph. Not only was our sentence very close to the actual author's, the paragraph made complete sense. She said if we did that with shared novels before we got to the complicated ones, they made much more sense to the kids and they are familiar. I thought there would be books about this strategy. I moved since the CATE conference and the paperwork is in a box somewhere on the back patio. Hopefully, I will find it before may daughters inherit it. Kim Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, California 93702 Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, let go of what you can't change, kiss slowly, play hard, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, have no regrets.. Life's too short to be anything but happy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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.
