It sounds ambitious to me. How much do your teachers know about the 7 strategies? If they know a lot, then the brief overview could be eliminated and you could just provide the handouts. If they don't know anything, then the brief overview would be too short.
I like your idea on focusing on one strategy and I think questioning would be a good one. I have 2 questions: Could you give us the Wisconsin Public Education website you referred to? Also, what are beanie baby bookmarks? I think that including a few websites in the handouts would be truly helpful. The Mosaic Toolkit website would be one I would definitely include. ----- Original Message ----- From: Felicia Barra Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 6:51 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] questioning Hi Everyone, I usually lurk on this e-mail group and have learned a great deal from all of you. Several weeks ago, the director of Elementary Education in my district called me at home. I had gone to see Ellen at a workshop in NJ back in January and had filed a report to her office (Something we're suppose to do when we get professional leave time). Anyway, she asked me to do a workshop with one of our reading specialists on Critical Reading and we have a big hour and 15 minutes to do it!!!!!! So we've been planning and we decided to introduce all the strategies and then focus on one. We decided to do questioning because it lends itself to both fiction and non-fiction and I felt it could apply to other subject areas. I'd like your opinion on our agenda for tomorrow and please let me know if we've left anything out. 1. We'll talk about the need for deeper comprehension instruction and give a brief overview of the 7 key strategies. We have a handout on the strategies and also the beanie baby bookmarks. 2. We'll give a brief overview of the gradual release model. There's a handout on this too taken from the Wisconsin Public Education site we all like. 3. With the poster taken from Readinglady.com showing a child and stating that we should ask questions before, during and after, my colleague will do a think-aloud with How Many Days to America? 4. Then I have a copy on a non-fiction piece about Penguins that came from an encyclopedia to model guided practice. Instead of sticky notes, we're going to try the open door strategy (it's like a flip book turned sideways, questions go on the flaps and answers if found go underneath). 5. Finally we'll discuss how you can apply this to our reading anthology and hopefully have time for questions/discussions/sharing. Is this too ambitious for such a short period of time? What do you think? I'll be checking back every hour or so to see what you think. And since I'll probably not sleep tonight (nerves), I check early tomorrow morning before I leave for school. TIA for all your help. You guys are the best!!! Felicia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Mack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:26 PM Subject: [MOSAIC] RSS Feed for list (digesters' dreams answered) > About a month ago a member that lurks on the list asked me about RSS feeds > for our listserv. I just now happened across the URL that provides this: > http://snipurl.com/mosaicrss. > > WHO WOULD USE RSS FEED OF OUR LIST? > If you know and use RSS feeds for news services and other websites/blogs > that frequently update content, then you might want to add this to your > feeds. Those of you looking for a better alternative to the digest might > look into subscribing to the RSS feed. It's perfect for scanning through > recent posts and then even bookmarking/saving things of interest. > > HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT RSS? > Take the link <http://snipurl.com/mosaicrss> and you'll see what the > list's > RSS feed looks like. 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