We are quite pleased with them. This is our first year to use it and find them a great help to comprehension. As the others have said they are beautiful books on interesting subjects that really help with creating schema for the state standards in science and social studies. The writing genre focused on is the one you are reading which also makes for a great help in writing workshop. Another thing I like is the extended books you can order for practice on the skill you taught with one book. The 3 additional books are written at 3 levels. That has worked wonderfully in that the LD class has so many varying abilities. They can practice the strategy in a book that is their reading level (and they all look the same - so no one really even know they are ability grouped. > If any of you are in schools pushing differentiated learning right now, you need to look at the Nat. Geo. Theme Sets. They are 4 book sets on topics like Simple Machines, Solar System, Animal Habitats, Energy, Native Americans, Immigration, Colonial America, and many more. The 4 books have the same structure on each page but are written on 4 reading levels from 3.0 to 6.9. Each one looks at a different aspect of the subject, so if you are grouped. Each group needs each other. You can have ability groups reading their book and sharing their info with the class, or you can have heterogeneous groups where each student has the book at their reading level and their group benefits from all the info.
Another commercial for Nat. Geo - we do Constitution and Bill of Rights in our 8th grade. Nat. Geo has some beautiful books that teach the important concepts with a lower reading level and gorgeous, easy to understand format, There are also some fairly decent support materials for most of the books online at: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/lesson_plans/index.html Ann Jernigan Literacy Coach K-12 Webb City R-7 Schools [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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.
