Lori, Our presentation was 1 hour long. We did a power point and had many posters,anchor charts, books, and materials that we used in my classroom to help participants know what we were talking about. We were pushed for time so we wanted our focus to be on developing STAMINA reading (independent) reading, metacognition, and introduction to strategies (we used schema). We started with how to develop the STAMINA reading (the Daily 5-was our resource) and stressed the importance of choice and giving students time each day to read their own books. We discussed book boxes, independent reading folders (from Debbie Diller), genre lessons (used Beth Newingham's posters), book baskets (again Beth Newingham), and how to pick just right books (Tanny McGregor's shoe lesson, Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians, five finger bookmark). We also touched on sticky notes and how important mini-lessons were.
Next, we went to the whole idea of metacognition. Of course, we began with Mosaic. Again, we used (and cited) resources and activities that we did. We used Tanny McGregor's CD and book for several activities ( reading salad, thought bubble,etc.). In addition to books, we gave many of the web sites to go to which included reading lady. Next, we introduced the strategies and only presented Schema because of time. We used lint brush activity, the file folder activity, and the cloze passage (the poultry one from last summer that was discussed). To tie it altogether and stress the importance of giving students time to discuss, we used some of the optical illusion pictures. This really showed how two people look at things differently, and the more you dig, the more you see. We ended with a cartoon from Susan O'Hanian, that said Weapons of Mass Instruction. We used it to drive home the fact that teachers have to power to bring joy to reading and help students to develop the love of reading. We encouraged them to let kids dig deep while reading their own books, to have deep discussions, and to go beyond using just the core for reading instruction. The participants were very postive and as I said in my previous post, Susan Zimmerman and several other keynote speakers noted the significance of strategies and developing the lifelong love of reading. It was a great conference. Thanks for asking. Linda B Lori wrote: This sounds GREAT! Please share your presentation with all of us!!! Congrats on your success! _______________________________________________ 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.
