Wow I love this list. First, I for one welcome the diversity and contrast in opinions. It stirs my own thinking and deepens my understanding of why I believe what I do, even if we disagree. I am quite comfortable with agreeing to disagree. I have taught side by side with a teacher who was my opposite and we were both highly respected successful teachers. So, it has to be an extreme perspective for me to get up in arms. Back to the topic. Thanks for all the ideas on increasing rate. Just to clairfy...most of my fluency work is heavy doses of silent reading at an independent level. Then we do lots of reader's theater to work on understanding character tone and expression and we reread many times which improves flow. We tape record before and after and self-assess. Being an MOT fan we have laid a strong foundation for metacognitive work from the beginning...there is no doubt that we read for meaning first. Still when a small group of students asks me how they can read faster and note that it is a burden for them to read at the pace they do, I am comfortable focusing on speed for awhile. Gina, 6th grade, Austin, Texas _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last. Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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