Thank you all so much for your help and support!! On Dec 2, 2007 5:39 PM, Beverlee Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Mary - There's a good resource out there now that may be of interest > to you. They're Toolkit Texts - Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent > Practice by Harvey and Goudvis by Heinemann. Nonfiction is often more > interesting than fiction to intermediate struggling readers. They're written > at different levels, so you can get just what you want. They take "real" > reading and collect it for you. Wonderful. Bev > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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.
