You bring up some great points.... my first graders love non-fiction and find it easier to comprehend than fiction. In fiction, you have conversation, tone, symbolism, play on words blah, blah, blah..... nonfiction has the infrastructure built into the genre that really reveals to kids how to comprehend....... I wish nonfiction was included at every level. .. but especially the emergent levels.... maybe Joetta will read the post:) I too have questions about scaffolding summaries.... especially the written ones at the second grade level... what is the point of them being written if they really are literal retells... unless you are also evaluating the writing. In a message dated 5/22/2008 10:50:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is hard for me to understand why there isn't a nonfiction text at every level starting with level 4. It is even more difficult for me to understand the reason behind not allowing students to look back during the retell at the early levels, but when they get to the scaffolded summaries, they are allowed to look back. Maxine Literacy Consultant In a message dated 5/22/2008 8:02:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We ask our teachers to stop at level 20 with first grade but they do have an opportunity to report their instructional levels. Lori On 5/22/08 6:49 AM, "Nancy Wittner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to the question about giving the DRA2 level M to first > graders. Just an FYI, I attended a DRA2 training given by Joetta Beaver > in November. She specifically stated that the DRA2 cut off is one grade > level above the student's current grade. Maybe the answer is exactly what > you were seeing with the difference between the oral comprehension and > written. > I gave the DRA2 to a Kindergartener would could decode at level M/28 but > would not have been able to answer the comprehension questions so I > stopped at level 16. > Would it be possible to stop at level L/24? > > Thanks > Nancy > Reading Coach > Gene Witt Elementary > > > School District of Manatee County > > _______________________________________________ > 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 **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) _______________________________________________ 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. **************Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) _______________________________________________ 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.
