ditto!!! Kitty :-) Renee wrote: > I'm sure I will get some flack for this, but in my opinion once a > student is reasonably adept at figuring out text, worrying about > *levels* is silly, unless the student consistently chooses books to > read that are way too easy or way too hard. > > I think it's real easy to get nit-picky about these things. I remember > about ten years ago or so, the Reading Recovery teacher at our school > saying that with a third grader past a certain level (RR, maybe level > 17 or so) it was not necessary to do running records anymore, and yet > these days it seems like people are doing running records on sixth > graders at level bazillion. Why are we making more work for ourselves? > For what reason? > > Renee > > On Apr 23, 2008, at 9:17 PM, HERBERT Suzanne wrote: > > >> It would be great if there was some feedback on this. We are >> levelling 40 percent of the books that we should be using in the >> classroom for reading. I would assume that literature circles and >> silent reading, the children will take their own choices. I teach >> fourth graders, and out of my 18 kids, 15 are independent on DRA Level >> 50. So, I'm thinking, how essential is it to stick to 'levelled >> books' if this is the case and why wouldn't you just encourage wider >> reading and child choice? I haven't in the past been into 'exact' >> levels for guided reading, somewhere in the 'range' and then lots of >> other reading instruction. We're an international school, and a bit >> isolated in terms of these types of conversations. At the moment we >> are just following directions blindly but now all these types of >> questions are starting to be asked. Any ideas/advice/thoughts greatly >> appreciated and I so appreciate the chance to speak with you all. >> Suzanne >> > > > "We are here to infiltrate space with ideas." > ~ Ramtha > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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