I would like to stay on-line with the literacy closet-book room discussion because I am also interested. I am the Literacy Coach of a 6-7-8 middle school. We have a book room in which we have book sets of novels, fiction and some non-fiction, and also some genre, thematic collections. We also have folders of teaching ideas that accompany some of our book sets. I would be happy to answer any questions about how we work the book room. I would also be interested in knowing more about titles of non-fiction for middle school that are included in ms book rooms.
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MS Literacy Closets/Book Rooms (Nicole Pierce) 8. Re: Making Meaning versus Comprehension Strategies Kit (Beverlee Paul) 9. Re: MS Literacy Closets/Book Rooms (Ann) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:19:54 -0500 From: "Loose Mary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Middle School Literacy Closets To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Nikki, Just to clarify, I think we have a "literacy closet" but we call it a bookroom - a middle school version of what is described in Fountas & Pinnell's Guided Reading Books. Is this what you are looking for? My email is listed below so we can visit off-list. Mary Loose Reading Specialist Oak Creek East Middle School Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nicole Pierce Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:59 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: [MOSAIC] Middle School Literacy Closets Just wondering if anyone has any experience with establishing/using a literacy closet at a secondary level - specifically middle school. If you are a middle school that uses a literacy closet I'd love to chat with you! We're in the early stages of creating one at our school. Thanks, Nikki Pierce 6-12 Literacy & Assessment Coach Kaneland School District Maple Park, IL 60151 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 630-365-3005 x243 630-365-5100 x122 _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.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. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:24:40 -0500 From: "Mohrhauser, Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Middle School Literacy Closets To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" My junior high (soon to be middle school) is looking to create a bookroom as well. I would love to be part of this discussion, too. Sarah Mohrhauser Literacy Coach/NJHS Advisor Cottage Grove Junior High 9775 Indian Blvd Cottage Grove, MN 55016 651.768.6850 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Through literacy you can begin to see the universe." Grace Slick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loose Mary Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:20 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Middle School Literacy Closets Hi Nikki, Just to clarify, I think we have a "literacy closet" but we call it a bookroom - a middle school version of what is described in Fountas & Pinnell's Guided Reading Books. Is this what you are looking for? My email is listed below so we can visit off-list. Mary Loose Reading Specialist Oak Creek East Middle School Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nicole Pierce Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:59 AM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: [MOSAIC] Middle School Literacy Closets Just wondering if anyone has any experience with establishing/using a literacy closet at a secondary level - specifically middle school. If you are a middle school that uses a literacy closet I'd love to chat with you! We're in the early stages of creating one at our school. Thanks, Nikki Pierce 6-12 Literacy & Assessment Coach Kaneland School District Maple Park, IL 60151 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 630-365-3005 x243 630-365-5100 x122 _________________________________________________________________ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser.msn.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. _______________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:51:03 -0500 From: "underdown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Middle School Literacy Closets To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-2022-jp;format="flowed" We do have a literacy closet in our middle school. We've had it for about 10 years, but it has been beefed up in the last five. I am the literacy coach and am also in charge of it. If you would like to talk to me off list or have a phone conversation, I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm in Melrose Park, Illinois, so you might want to organize a field trip! Barb On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:59:29 -0500 Nicole Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has any experience with establishing/using a >literacy closet at a secondary level - specifically middle school. If you >are a middle school that uses a literacy closet I'd love to chat with you! > We're in the early stages of creating one at our school. > > Thanks, > Nikki Pierce > 6-12 Literacy & Assessment Coach > Kaneland School District > Maple Park, IL 60151 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 630-365-3005 x243 > 630-365-5100 x122 > _________________________________________________________________ > Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! > http://biggestloser.msn.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. > Barb Underdown Literacy Staff Developer Mannheim Middle School Melrose Park, IL 60164 847-455-5020 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:33:30 -0700 From: Patricia Kimathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Middle School Literacy Closets To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed What is a literacy closet? Pat K "to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." e.e. cummings On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:51 AM, underdown wrote: >> literacy closet ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:03:40 -0700 From: "Julie Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Making Meaning versus Comprehension Strategies Kit To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know the difference between these two comprehension programs: Making Meaning by Developmental Studies Center and Comprehension Strategies Kit by Sundance Publishers? Any input you can give will be greatly appreciated as our Title one site is looking into purchasing some extra comprehension support for our pullout groups. Thanks, Julie ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:10:18 -0400 From: "Deb Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Sundance Comprehension Strategies Kit To: "'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Does anyone know the difference between these two comprehension programs: Making Meaning by Developmental Studies Center and Comprehension Strategies Kit by Sundance Publishers? Sundance materials have built in gradual release. They are consistent. They are very well written. I appreciate that they were written by Linda Gambrell. High quality. I have several schools I work with that are awesome! ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:25:24 -0500 From: Nicole Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MOSAIC] MS Literacy Closets/Book Rooms To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Thank you everyone for your enthusiasm, encouragement, and your help! Being so new to this (both the position of Lit & Assessment Coach AND the entire Reading arena) I didn't realize that the term 'literacy closet' was simply what our elementary schools used in reference to Fountas & Pinnell's description of a 'book room' in their book Matching Books to Readers . LeeAnn sent a great description of what her ms has: ...the books are in three categories. In one category is chapter books that teachers can use for literature circles. I try to gather them around possible themes so that a teacher can have students reading books for lit circles that are focused around a common theme. The second category is picture books in sets sized for half the class. I pair two of these sets around a common theme and then develop a scenario question that students have to write to answer and include details from the books to support their answers. This is modeled after one of the writing prompts on our state test. The third category is single picture books. These are for teachers to use as mentor texts when teaching reading strategies or writing traits. I've been trying to get all of them into a data base with information about which strategy/trait each works best with. Then when teachers come to me needing, say, a book to use for teaching word choice, I can find one for them quickly and give them the choice of several... _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail?-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:48:33 -0600 From: Beverlee Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Making Meaning versus Comprehension Strategies Kit To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'm anxious to know this as well, as I'm currently budgeting. The only thing I know right now is that Making Meaning includes a typical social, community, collaborative slant that Sundance nor Heinemann does. It seems to me so far that it's like Sundance enriched by the Developmental Studies Center. > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:03:40 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > [email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Making Meaning versus > Comprehension Strategies Kit> > Does anyone know the difference between these > two comprehension> programs:> Making Meaning by Developmental Studies Center > and Comprehension> Strategies Kit by Sundance Publishers?> _________________________________________________________________ Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging.?You IM, we give. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 8:27:45 -0400 From: Ann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] MS Literacy Closets/Book Rooms To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 "The second category is picture books in sets sized for half the class. I pair two of these sets around a common theme and then develop a scenario question that students have to write to answer and include details from the books to support their answers." -- Nicole, Would you be willing to share the titles of this category with the list? This is exactly what I am planning on doing in my 7th grade classroom! In Michigan, our students need to write about a common theme between a fiction and nonfiction reading selection. I would also like to see some of the prompts/questions that you use. Ann [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. 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