Debbie, please connect back with this list so we all can look over your shoulder as you watch these kids! I, for one, would be very interested. BevI will be anxiously watching the students in my building over the next couple of years. We did not have a phonics program until last year when we adopted the Animated Literacy program for K-1. It will be interesting to see how the kids who have participated in this curriculum progress as readers. I do know that we had ZERO kindergartners (out of approx. 85 students) who qualified for tier 2 or 3 services at the end of the school year (based on Dibels) and only had 3 students below a level 4 on the DRA2. We've never had such low numbers before. I've watched K-1 students applying all the hand motions they learned in AL as they tried to decode unfamiliar words. I've been able to give ques by simply reminding the students of the character (i.e. Arnie Ardvaark when decoding a word such as barn and stuck on the /ar/ sound). I think that all skills build on one another, and while, maybe not all kids need phonics to read, if they can get phonics, it may make reading easier, just like if they can use context to decode, it will make reading easier. > > I hope we can keep these great conversations going on this board. It helps keep me on my toes!> > Thanks,> Debbie _________________________________________________________________ Do more with your photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_photos_022008 _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org.
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