Brian is a gem. I was honored to present with him at IRA in Chicago a few years ago. I would love to hear more, John, as his thinking is ever evolving.
Lori On 5/17/08 6:26 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Cami, > > I attended Brian Camboure's Sunday reading institute at the IRA conference in > Atlanta. Cambourne presented, along with classroom teachers. Cambourne is the > author of the Conditions for all (human) learning, which I think is really > reflected in Routman's optimal learning model, and even have components within > the reading/writing workshops framework. > > The kindergarten teacher (I think she was from Kentucky, but my notes are in > the car) who presented with Cambourne shared how her year is built around > creating, reading, writing, performing, watching, advertising Reader's Theatre > performances. Every time she read a new book aloud to her class the students > wanted to rewrite it as a Reader's Theatre piece! It was clear to me that her > children became speakers, listeners, readers and writers after a year with > her. I would be thrilled to have students come into my upper primary classroom > after a year with her previously, and thrilled if she kept them for a second > year in first grade. > > So, I hope you do take the rest of your school year to do "fun" reading > activities! Start with a some simple reader's theatre scripts. Actually she > took stories like Oh, Lovely Mud, and they wrote the pieces together. > > By the way Cambourne built on his conditions for learning with additions to > his model for effective classroom/effective teachers that I had not read or > heard him talk about before. He spoke about having a valid theory of learning > (I connected it to Bonnie Campbell Hill's model with the child in the center > and arrows running both ways to the essential components of learning.) He also > spoke about the supportive routines that classrooms provide, including the > language teachers use, and then basically the components of the literacy > workshops. If someone wants to know more, I can get my notes. > > John > > > >> Part of me would love to just do a lot of fun reading activities like I used >> to do such as acting out stories, making up new endings, writing a letter to >> a favorite character but I know that there are more valuable things that I >> should be teaching them to do in order to be better readers. > > _______________________________________________________ > Sent through e-mol. E-mail, Anywhere, Anytime. http://www.e-mol.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. > -- Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach & Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 57555 http:www.tcsdk12.org ph. 605.856.2211 Literacies for All Summer Institute July 17-20. 2008 Tucson, Arizona _______________________________________________ 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.
