Hi everyone! I need your thoughtful advice and guidance. I have been teaching with the mosaic strategies for 4 years now and love it. It was hard at first because I was the only one using the reader's workshop format and the strategies (ala Debbie Miller) and I had no support. Thank goodness for all of you. Many times I just lurk, but even then I've received so much support and confidence by just reading your posts. I think we have some teachers coming around to this way of teaching and it excites me but I also have reservations about how to approach them with the idea of not using each others mentor texts. How do you set this up in your schools? Are there certain books that have been "assigned" (for lack of a better word) to each grade level for modeling strategies so the same books aren't used over and over again for the same lesson? This is hard for me to explain without feeling very possessive and I hope it doesn't come across that way. I am very willing to give up titles that I use for our first grade teachers to use instead and there are thousands of books to use. (I teach 2nd by the way) This is the very selfish part that makes me a little ashamed...there are a few books I use that I definitely don't want to give up. I have spent a lot of time looking for the exact right books and spent a lot of money in the process. Some are from Reading With Meaning and some are from other websites, this listserv, and other professional books I've read. I'm feeling very protective of what I have, but again, am willing to give up some titles. I am also very willing to help these teachers who want to start using the strategies because I think it is so powerful. What is the best way to approach this and what do your schools do? Maybe I'm fretting over nothing and being too possessive of what I've created in my classroom...I hope I don't sound as selfish as I feel! I'd really like to sleep tonight so any thoughts?
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