I have my kids reading and responding in their readers' notebooks. Their response could be a question that I have given them or they might just be recording their thinking. I used to do the letter thing but it was too many letters to respond to and they thought it was the only way to respond to what they've read. I too felt like I was killing the enthusiasm for reading. It sure killed my love of letter writing! Sue In a message dated 9/2/2008 11:20:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have my kids read independently while I work with groups and/or conference. They are responsible to writing me one letter a week (every year I change this because I'm so afraid of killing their love of reading!) and I respond to it. I may tweak it again this year as I have 25 kids and that's a lot of letters for me to write! I model my letter after the Fountas and Pinnel first 30 days, too. Kristin Mitchell/4th/CO "Be the change you want to see in the world" -Ghandi ----- Original Message ---- From: "Hamilton, Whitney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What do you all have your students do while you are working in small guided reading groups or conferencing one on one with students? _______________________________________________ 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. **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) _______________________________________________ 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.
