Have you read Carol Lyon's book, Teaching Struggling Readers? It is a very powerful book. I have taught 6th graders who couldn't read, and Lyon's book probably addresses some issues you are having. Also, I don't think you can go wrong with teaching these kids basic reading strategies like in Fountas & Pinnell's book, Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children. Dr. Marie Clay said that we "create" a lot of LD kids by not addressing their confusions about print when they are beginning readers, so I suspect that a good number of your 6th graders may have missed out on good first teaching. I have been teaching a long time, and I don't think there are any kits or programs out there that provide what these struggling readers need, since they will flourish with teaching based on close observation of what they can do & then individual attention to help them get where they need to go. Mary M./TX
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ann Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:27 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Please Help > Read the book: Small-Group Reading Instruction: A Differentiated Teaching > Model for Beginning and Struggling Readers. > > Sorry, I don't know who wrote it. I'm using this book in an Early Literacy > Class I'm taking this semester. > > I'm using the program with 3 different reading groups. One of the groups > is > an Emergent Reading group. The other 2 have kids in the Fledgling level > that > started on level 4 in mid October with 1 starting level 10 today and the > other is on level 7. The one on level 7 comes to resource reading from the > Life Skills class. > > Mary Ann > Traditional Sounds > www.traditionalsounds.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lauren Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:18 PM > Subject: [MOSAIC] Please Help > > >> Hi, >> >> I am a first year special education teacher and am in desperate need of >> help >> with some of my struggling readers. I am working with 6th grade >> students >> and some of my students started with about 80 sight words at the >> beginning >> of the year. The entire special education team is new to the school and >> we >> are basically starting from scratch because all of the reading programs >> were >> taken by the teachers who left. I need some intense remediation for >> these >> students who are predominately labeled as LD. I would appreciate any >> suggestions on what to do and what types of programs would best meet the >> needs of my students. Also, one that either has trainings frequently and >> close to Alexandria or that does not require any training. I hope I did >> this correctly because this is my first post. Thank you so much for all >> of >> your help!!! >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
