I love this list and am so glad for summer and a chance to take time to think again.
Why does electronic media have to be the competition!? Why not collaborate. It is a different and important part of literacy and it is not going away. I think we can help students to learn to use electronic media well and teach them to appreciate books, words, and reading as well. These students will need to be able to communicate using electronic media and so they need to know how to read it also. Janice On Jun 7, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Susan Cronk wrote: > > Our district just had Richard Allington in for a day, awesome, I > think I am > in love *: )*. He is amazing I could go on and on about that > however.... He > told us that some report said that our students are spending 5 1/2 > hours > daily with some type of electronic media a day! There is our > competition > folks! He also spoke about the Five Missing pillars of Scientific > Reading > instruction from the NRP (2001) which he says,"... has been > criticized for > its narrowly-focused research review." Allington gave us citations > from > five additional pillars of scientific reading instruction... what > really > matters. *Writing and reading have reciprocal positive effects. > The more > effective we curriculum plan ensures that lessons in reading and > writing, > composing and comprehension, and decoding and spelling are well- > linked so as > to take advantage of the natural reciprocity between the various > reading and > language process. *somewhere in that is vocabulary development. > > > Susan Cronk, MS, NBCT > Jenks West Intermediate > 6th Grade LA/SS > >> _______________________________________________ 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.
