Jan, What grade do you teach? I think that makes a bit of difference with what to do. The wee ones, for example, will often be engaged with literacy workstations or centers, and Debbie Diller has a good book for setting these up. (The intermediate title (Gr 3-6) is "Practice With Purpose." The primary title escapes me...could it be "Literacy Workstations?" Not sure.)
Personally when I looped 3/4, my kids READ while I conferred with others. My block looked like: 1. Read aloud/model/strategies 2. Guided practice (WG) 3. Indep reading/strategy practice/I meet with SG or individuals 4. WG share...discuss/reflect on reading and how strat. helped them as readers. it worked well for me, but now that I am teaching 2nd, I know that I will need to ease into indep. reading even more, so I'm going to incorporate some workstations. ;o) lisa 2/3 IL --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Bill's comments bring up a question I've been > thinking about. Suppose I have three or four > students who need more help with something that > everyone else in the class understands. Stephanie > Harvey suggests small group instruction. How do you > keep the other 20-plus students working when you're > occupied with a few? > Jan > > > -------------- Original message > ---------------------- > From: "Bill Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [snip] > > > > > I think it's the fact that each child is different > and has different needs > > that should direct instruction. Some lessons will > be geared for the most > > kids with similar needs (like introducing > strategies), but some lessons are > > gonna be more geared for individual students. If > 26 of 29 are fluent, it's > > a waste to spend a lot of whole class time on > fluency, but taking the 3 > > students who need the help while the rest of the > class is working on > > something else, is probably more effective. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ _______________________________________________ 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.
