We scribe only according to specific modification in the student's IEP.

On 5/21/08 11:37 AM, "Megan Reilly Padilla"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> The written summary gets a bit tricky when students who would be able to
> give you and oral summary (not retell), but can't write it as well.  We
> try to limit the cases in which the teacher scribes but some times its
> necessary.  
> 
> Megan Reilly Padilla
> Reading Specialist
> Natick, MA
> 
> [email protected] on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM -0500
> wrote:
>> Message: 8
>> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 22:57:39 EDT
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] End of Grade Testing
>> To: [email protected]
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>> 
>> Although I have no answer specifically to Angela's situation.... her post
>> 
>> prompted me to write some of my concerns for first graders..... I would
>> like to  
>> know especially from teachers who administer the dra 2 how they introduce
>> the 
>> written element of the test which starts at level M.....
>> 
>> Never given this test previously..... I can see why it might not be
>> appropriate to administer the level M test to first graders....
>> however.... our 
>> district cut off is level M....... although my fluent readers can sail
>> through  the 
>> decoding and even answer those comprehension questions at the end  orally
>> as 
>> well as support their responses with evidence from the text  (at least
>> some of 
>> them can) ... that is a far cry from writing their responses.  The length
>> alone is daunting! Plus we have not taught them to enter responses in
>> their 
>> notebooks like that. We use sticky notes and graphic organizers.... kids
>> use 
>> their reader's notebook responses more for fueling their chats with their
>> 
>> buddies...... 
>> 
>> I would think that somewhere after J and before M...... there is a need
>> to 
>> formally show kids how to answer questions (whether literal
>> interpretative or
>> reflective) in written responses that are more formal summaries.... My
>> high  
>> flyers are aware of the kinds of information that might need to add but
>> certainly they talk their way through this more than write their
>> thoughts.....even
>> the graphic organizers I provide are more for stream of  thoughts .....
>> 
>> I am interested to know if you do take formal steps to teach this kind of
>> 
>> writing..... does it occur in your reader's workshop or your writer's
>> workshop  
>> or does it more naturally occur when they are developmentally  ready?
>> 
>> I know as a grade level we added a unit of comprehension called retelling
>> 
>> (verbal) before we even gave the DRA in the fall because at those early
>> levels  
>> kids do not even know what elements to include in their retells.... our
>> response  was overwhelmingly successful and kids did way better at the
>> beginning of 
>> this  year as compared to the results we gathered the year before. I am
>> wondering  if the same holds true for beginning the writing of retelling.
>> 
>> 
> 
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