Great news about WTW. I am giving the spelling inventory this week to a small group of 4th grade struggling readers, then I plan to go from there. I have these kids based on dibels to work on fluency primarily, but I expanded to work on comprehension and word work. Thanks for the insight.
Cathy DE k-5 -----Original Message----- From: Kate Lino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 7:56 am Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Words Their Way This is my first year to use WTW, but I have seen really good results so far. I ave the assessment at the beginning of the school year and just gave one at the eginning of the second 9 weeks to see if there was any progress. Almost all of y students made improvements, so that was really exciting to me to be able to ee the results of the program. I was also able to reorganize my groups based n the data from the second assessment. I have four groups: one is focused on hort vowel sounds, one on diagraphs and blends, one on long vowel sounds and ne on inflected endings (I have a very diverse group of learners this year ... lot of extremes). I have them bring their word sort cards to reading groups very day and the first five minutes they do their sorts. One day I might have hem do a speed sort, another day they may pair up with someone in the group who as the same word list and they may do a "no-peeking" sort with one another. The arents have been extremely supportive and seem to like the program, too. I ould go on and on about how much I like the program! I am seeing that it is not nly helping their spelling, but also helping in their decoding and reading. ope that helps! ate nd/NC > > I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is currently using this rogram.? > ________________________________________________________________ elp yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by oday. ttp://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline ______________________________________________ osaic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.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.
